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Community and Public Health Nursing:
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Evidence for Practice, 4th Edition (DeMarco),
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Chapters 1 - 25 | All Chapters
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1. A nurse is striving to practice patient-centered care at a hospital. Which action
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A) Having a client complete a self-reported functional status indicator and
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C) Recording a client's signs and symptoms in an electronic health record
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D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client while the client is in
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ANSWER: A b
Feedback:
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b and lifestyles. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring
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b health becomes the client's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare providers
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b make better decisions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has
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b developed a series of tools that empower clients and assist providers in achieving desired
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b outcomes, including client-reported functional status indicators. Computer-assisted
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robotic surgical techniques, electronic health records, andcontinuous glucose monitoring
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b client become a more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not good
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examples of patient-centered care.
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 2
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2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2 diabetes
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b mellitus. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this client's
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C) Medication ineffective due to error in prescription b b b b b b
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E) No family in the
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E Feedback:
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The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education,
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b social, and personal resources necessary to attain and maintain health. A medical erroron
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b determinant of the client's health. b b b b
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Community and Public Health Nursing:
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Evidence for Practice, 4th Edition (DeMarco),
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Chapters 1 - 25 | All Chapters
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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,Chapter 1: Public Health Nursing b b b b
1. A nurse is striving to practice patient-centered care at a hospital. Which action
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bestexemplifies providing patient-centered care?
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A) Having a client complete a self-reported functional status indicator and
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b thenreviewing it with the client
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B) Explaining to a client the benefits of computer-assisted robotic b b b b b b b b
b surgicaltechniques, which the hospital recently implemented
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C) Recording a client's signs and symptoms in an electronic health record
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D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client while the client is in
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b thehospital b
ANSWER: A b
Feedback:
Patient-centered care considers cultural traditions, personal preferences, values, families,
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b and lifestyles. Clients become active participants in their own care, and monitoring
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b health becomes the client's responsibility. To help clients and their healthcare providers
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b make better decisions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has
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b developed a series of tools that empower clients and assist providers in achieving desired
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b outcomes, including client-reported functional status indicators. Computer-assisted
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robotic surgical techniques, electronic health records, andcontinuous glucose monitoring
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b in the hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but they do not help the
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b client become a more active participant in his or hercare, and thus are not good
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examples of patient-centered care.
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Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 2
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2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to manage her type 2 diabetes
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b mellitus. The nurse should recognize which social determinants of this client's
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b health?(Select all that apply.)
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A) Household income of $23,000 per year b b b b b
B) Reading level of a third grader b b b b b
C) Medication ineffective due to error in prescription b b b b b b
, D) Originally from Sudan b b
E) No family in the
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areaANSWER: A, B, D,
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E Feedback:
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The social conditions in which people live, their income, social status, education,
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b literacy, home and work environment, support networks, gender, culture, and
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b availability of health services are the social determinants of health. These conditions
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b have an impact on the extent to which a person or community possesses the physical,
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b social, and personal resources necessary to attain and maintain health. A medical erroron
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b the part of the client's primary care provider or nurse would not constitute a social
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b determinant of the client's health. b b b b