Evidence for Practice, 3rd Edition (DeMarco),
Chapters 1 - 25 | All Chapters
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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,Chapter1: Public Health Nursing fb fb fb fb
1. A nurse is striving to practice patient-
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centered careat a hospital. Whichactionbestexemplifies providing patient-
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centered care? fb
A) Having a client complete a self- fb fb fb fb fb
reported functional status indicator and thenreviewing it with the client fb fb fb fb fb bf fb f b fb fb
B) Explaining to aclient the benefits ofcomputer- fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
assisted roboticsurgicaltechniques, which the hospitalrecently implement fb fb bf fb fb fb bf fb
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C) Recording a client's signsand symptoms inan electronic health record fb fb fb bf fb fb bf fb fb fb
D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring ofa client while the client is inthehospi fb fb fb fb bf fb fb fb fb fb fb bf bf
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centered care considers cultural traditions, personal preferences, values, families, and lifesty
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les. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring health becomes the c
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lient's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare providers make better decisions, the
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a series of tools that em
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power clients and assist providers in achieving desired outcomes, including client-
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assistedroboticsurgicaltechniques, electronic healthrecords, andcontinuous glucose monit
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oring in the hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but they do not help the clien
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t become a more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not goodexamples of patient-
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Origin: Chapter 1-Public HealthNursing, 2
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2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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The nurse should recognize which socialdeterminants ofthis client's health?(Select all that
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E) No family intheareaA
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The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education, literacy, ho
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me and workenvironment, support networks, gender, culture, and availability of health servi
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ces are the social determinants of health. These conditions have an impact on the extent to whi
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ch a person or community possesses the physical, social, and personalresources necessaryto
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attainand maintain health. A medicalerroron the part of the client's primary care provider or n
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urse would not constitute a social determinant ofthe client's health.
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