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What are the 3 levels of health promotion? - Answers-Primary= preventing disease from developing through promoting a healthy lifestyle. Secondary= Screening efforts to promote early detection of disease. Tertiary= minimizing disability from acute or cronic illness or injury and allowing for most productive life within lilmitations. What are examples for the 3 levels of health promotion? - Answers-Primary= Immunizations Secondary= Mammogram Tertiary = The disease is already present: Hyper...

The 10 Essential Public Health Services - Answers-1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems. 2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community. 3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues. 4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems. 5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. 6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensur...

The nurse is comparing the concepts of religion and spirituality. Which statement describes an appropriate component of one's spirituality? a. Belief in and the worship of God or gods b. Being closely tied to one's ethnic background c. Attendance at a specific church or place of worship d. A connection with something larger than oneself and belief in transcendence - Answers-d. A connection with something larger than oneself and belief in transcendence The nurse is taking an initial ...

TLC - Answers-tender loving care tid - Answers-three time daily T.O. - Answers-telephone order T.P.R. - Answers-temperature, pulse, respirations UA - Answers-urinalysis via - Answers-by way of VO - Answers-verbal order V.S. - Answers-vital signs (temp, pulse, respiration, blood pressure) WA - Answers-walk aid WBC - Answers-white blood count w/c - Answers-wheel chair

What are the six essential nutrients? - Answers-Carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals, water Malnutrition - Answers-Lack of sufficient nutrients in the body. Under-nutrition - Answers-Nutritional deficiency resulting from lack of food or from the inability of the body to convert or absorb it. Over-nutrition - Answers-the excessive intake of food, especially in unbalanced proportions. Phytochemicals - Answers-Non-nutritive plant chemicals that have protective or disease prev...

PT - Answers-male: 9.6-11.8 sec female: 9.5-11.3 sec measures the amount time it takes for clot formation. platelet count - Answers-150k-400k high altitudes, chronic cold weather and excercise increase platelet counts hemolobin - Answers-male: 14-16.5 g/dl female: 12-15 g/dl

What are some nonpharmacological pain management strategies? - Answers-- Distraction - Imagery - Body repositioning - Relaxation - Therapies Safety - Answers--------- What are safety precautions used for? - Answers-Protection for everyone What type of gloves still contain latex? - Answers-Most sterile gloves

Intuition is an inner sensing that something is so, as in this example. Reflection is the process of purposefully thinking back or recalling a situation to discover its purpose or meaning. Knowledge of the nurse includes information and theory from the basic sciences, humanities, behavioral sciences, and nursing. Scientific methodology is an approach to seeking the truth or verifying that a set of facts agrees with reality. The nurse manager has developed a staff protocol for peer evaluation....

The benefits of having a defined body of theory in nursing include better patient care, enhanced professional status for nurses, improved communication between nurses, and guidance for research and education As medicine tries to make a move towards adopting a more multidisciplinary approach to health care, nursing continues to strive to establish a unique body of knowledge This can be seen as an attempt by the nursing profession to maintain its professional boundaries

You have 250 mg tablets; the doctor orders 1 g. How many tablets do you give? - Answers-4 tablets Always give the least number of tablets for the proper dosage. The order is 3 mg of a drug. You have 1.5 mg tab and 2 mg tablet, how would you fill the order? - Answers-Two 1.5 mg tablets The order is 5 mg of a drug; on hand are 1 mg tab, 2 mg tab, and 2.5 mg tab. Give _______ - Answers-Two 2.5 mg tabs

Source-Oriented Charting - Answers--Organized according to sure of information -Narrative notes -Advantages: Information in chronological order, and documents patient's baseline condition for each shift -Disadvantantages: documents all findings, requires extensive charting, and cumbersome Problem-oriented medical record Charting - Answers-Focuses on patient status (problem) *Advantages: -Problem-solving approach to care -Continuity of care and communication -Requires constant evalua...

Current Status of Nursing: Characteristics - Answers-Knowledge-based on education and practice, the "Science of Nursing in all its complexity. Mission-our shared goals, what those we care for can expect from us. Education-our formal preparation Social Contract-what we promise society, what society expects from us. Autonomy-our independent capacity to make decisions for our patients within the confines of our scope of practice. Accountability-ownership of our decision-making. Current S...

s a shared experience, efforts to alleviate distress are most successful when they are also shared . A nurse is working with a terminally ill adult patient. The nurse decides to tell the adult children that they need to decide how to advise their father about taking analgesics during the terminal phase of his illness. This step of processing an ethical dilemma is A. Articulation of the problem. B. Evaluation of the action. C. Negotiation of the outcome.

Primary prevention - Answers-*Aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs; *This is done by preventing exposures to hazards that cause disease or injury, altering unhealthy or unsafe behaviours that can lead to disease or injury, and increasing resistance to disease or injury should exposure occur. Secondary prevention - Answers-*Aims to reduce the impact of a disease or injury that has already occurred. *This is done by detecting and treating disease or injury as soon as poss...

Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality - Answers--published 2003 -important aspects of nursing that had to be taught in education -Specifically they need to be taught to work in interdisciplinary teams cooperating, collaborating, communicating, and integrating care to ensure that care is continuous and reliable Future of Nursing: Leading Change,Advancing Health - Answers--Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training -Nurses should achieve higher leve...

A two year old child has an endoscopic procedure to remove a small toy she swallowed. During discharge teaching, which instruction is priority for the nurse to inform the child's parents to prevent further risk of aspiration? A. "Allow the child to play with one toy at a time and only under direct supervision. B. "Follow the appropriate are recommendations marked on toys before giving them to the child." C."Notify the physician if the child complains of a sore throat wit...

What nursing advocate elevated the status of nursing to a respected occupation, improved the quality of nursing care, and founded modern nursing education? - Answers-Florence Nightingale What development had the greatest influence on the development of nursing as a profession since the 1950s? - Answers-Nursing practice was broadened to include practice in a wide variety of healthcare settings.

Community distrust of healthcare services Increased client workloads Decreased access to equipment and resources Extended work hours Lack of time for self-care - Answers-All apply Select the work factors related to each provided example. -Federal and state laws -Leadership and management -Policies and procedures (internal) -Technology -Colleague relationships/personalities - Answers-External Environment Healthcare Organizations Front Care Delivery

The philosophy of patient centered care includes - Answers-Ensures that patients have adequate information to make health care decisions. This nursing leader trained at Kaiserswerth School in Germany. Her attentiveness to the impact of envirionment on soldiers health resulted in a significant decline in death rate of injured and ill soldiers during the Crimean War - Answers-Florence Nightengale This nursing leader, actually a teacher, was appointed Superintendent of the department of Nurse...

leader - Answers-- influence others to work together, accomplish goals - effective leadership: needs & goals to motivate - knowledge to apply leadership skills - interpersonal skills to influence others manage - Answers-- individuals, families, communities - organizational structure - dynamics - authority - accountability -leadership - change theory