Nsg432 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NSG432 ATI Community Health Focus Freed-Hardeman University  Nightingale’s Environment Theory:  Emphasized prevention care.  Washing hands  Sterilizing instruments  Health Belief Model  Assumes that preventive health behaviors are taken primarily for the purpose of avoiding disease.  Describes the likelihood of taking an action to avoid disease based on:  Susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of disease  Modifying factors  Demographics  Knowledge...

Nurses must be alert for increased fluid requirements when a child has: a. Fever. c. Congestive heart failure. b. Mechanical ventilation. d. Increased intracranial pressure (ICP). A newborn was admitted to the nursery with a complete bilateral cleft lip and palate. The physician explained the plan of therapy and its expected good results. However, the mother refuses to see or hold her baby. Initial therapeutic approach to the mother should be to: a. Restate what the physician has told her about ...