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When preparing to administer a prescribed medication to a homeless client at a community psychiatric clinic. The client tells the nurse that the usual dosage taken is different from the dose the nurse is giving. Which action should the nurse take? A) Inform the client that he may refuse the medication and document whether or not the client takes it. B) Withhold the medication until the dosage can be confirmed. C) Explain to the client that the dosage has been changed. D) Tell the clien...

An ER nurse is completing an assessment on a patient that is alert but struggles to answer questions. When she attempts to talk, she slurs her speech and appears very frightened. What additional clinical manifestation does the nurse expect to find if nacy's sysmptoms have been caused by a brain attack (stroke)? A. A carotid bruit B. A hypotensive blood pressure C. hyperreflexic deep tendon relexes. D. Decreased bowel sounds - A) A carotid bruit. Rationale: the carotid artery (artery to...

Which of the following statements are true of HFMA's Patient Financial Communications Best Practices? - The best practices were developed specifically to help patients understand the cost of services, their individual insurance benefits and their responsibility for balance after insurance if any The patient experience includes all of the following except: - The average number of positive mentions received by the health system or practice and the public comments refuting unfriendly posts on s...

A nurse is performing a cognitive assessment to distinguish delirium from dementia in a client whose family reports episodes of confusion. Which of the following assessment findings supports the nurse's suspicion of delirium? - Easily distracted A nurse is caring for a client who gave birth to a stillborn baby. Which of the following statements should the nurse make? - "I'll stay with you just in case you want to talk." A nurse is caring for four clients in an emergency department. The...

The nurse is using a forced air warmer for a surgical patient preoperatively. Which goals is the nurse trying to achieve? (Select all that apply.) - B.Reduce blood loss. D. Reduce cardiac arrests. E. Reduce surgical site infection. ANS: B, D, E Evidence suggests that pre-warming for a minimum of 30 minutes may reduce the occurrence of hypothermia. Prevention of hypothermia (core temperature < 36° C) helps to reduce complications such as shivering, cardiac arrest, blood loss, SSI, pr...

The suffix that means nourishment or development is: -esis -trophy -orrhaphy -megaly - -trophy The diagnostic term that means inflamed kidney and renal pelvis: -hydronephrosis -nephrohypertrophy -trachelocystitis -pyelonephritis - pyelonephritis The diagnostic term "Polycystic Kidney Disease - PKD" refers to the kidney having multiple ____________ causing renal (refers to kidney) failure. -sores or ulcers -sacs or blister -hemorrhages -warts - sacs or blisters The ...

Public Health in America Statement: essential roles of government related to public health - Assessment, policy development, and assurance Assessment - Includes obtaining data that defines the health of the overall population and specific groups within the population, including defining the nature of new and persisting health problems Policy Development - includes developing evidence-based recommendations and other analyses of options such as health policy analysis, to guide implantation, ...

components of public health system - (1) federal agencies (2) government agencies(other then public health), STLTs (state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments), clinical care delivery systems (3) media, community-based orgs, private non-profit associations, educational institutions, private industry Goals of Governmental PH Agencies - - prevent epidemics and spread of disease - protect against environmental hazards - prevent injuries - promote and encourage healthy behavio...

water chlorination, hand washing, and indoor plumbing - 3 factors that have largely eliminated the transmission of common bacterial diseases, which for centuries killed the young and old 1. reduction of blood pressure and cholesterol 2. cigarette smoking prevention and cessation efforts 3. use of low-dose aspirin 4. understanding of the role of exercise 5. widespread availability of defibrillators - preventive successes that have reduced the death rate from coronary artery disease by 50% ...

violence - exertion of any physical force so as to injure or abuse intimate partner violence - physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse intimate partner violence stats - 1 in 4 females; 1 in 7 males child abuse - physical abuse; unlawful corporal punishment; general and severe neglect; sexual abuse; sexual assault; exploitation; willful harming or endangering a child; emotional maltreatment child abuse stats - 4 million referral reports; almost...

Which one of the following statements about the search command is true? A. It does not allow the use of wildcards. B. It treats field values in a case-sensitive manner. C. It can only be used at the beginning of the search pipeline. D. It behaves exactly like search strings before the first pipe. - D. It behaves exactly like search strings before the first pipe. Which of the following actions can the eval command perform? A. Remove fields from results. B. Create or replace an existing f...

What causes smallpox and how transmitted? - Cause: a virus Transmitted by: aerosol, contact with contaminated material How did smallpox come to the New World? - Christopher Columbus' second journey (1492), could have came with slaves Smallpox in the Americas prior to 1775 - How prevalent? - numerous smallpox epidemics, depopulated North America Where was inoculation done in the Americas? - Was outlawed in some colonies, was okay in middle colonies. Many military men were inoculated. D...

What is infectious disease surveillance? - Ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of infectious disease-related data coordinated with the timely dissemination of data to those responsible for preventing and controlling the data. Why do surveillance for infectious disease? - - detecting outbreaks - helps evaluate effectiveness of control measures What is involved for infectious disease surveillance? - - the patient - physician - hospital/clinic - county health department - st...

Germ Theory of Disease - idea that infectious diseases are caused by pathogens Early ideas about disease transmission - punishment for sins, miasma, hexes/spells, spontaneous generation miasma - a highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor Louis Pasteur - A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer. -disproved spontaneous generation -vaccines for rabies and anthrax Robert Koch - country doctor ...

Bio warfare - intentional use of disease causing organisms or products of organisms to harm populations to attain military a objective bioterorism - intentional use of disease causing agents or products of organisms to harm humans, other animals, or plants in order to cause civil unrest and panic or to commit a crime Advantages of biological weapons - -Readily available "easy to grow" -inexpensive -highly transportable -not easy detected -Tasteless, odorless, invisible -Suicide "infecto...

High Income - >12.6 thousand per person per year Low Income - <1 thousand per person per year Extreme Poverty - <$1.90 per person per day Poverty line in the US - $25,000 per family of 4 per year Is development linked to better health outcomes? - Yes What is the link between infectious disease burden and economic wealth? Exception? - USUALLY higher per capita GDP and higher life expectancy Exception: 19th century England - : Industrialization led to steady economic gr...

Understand differences between catabolism / anabolism and what these reactions have to do with metabolism - anabolism: simple substances are synthesized, ENDERGONIC, needs input of energy, ex: peptidoglycan, enzymes, exotoxins catabolism: breakdown of complex molecules, EXERGONIC, energy released metabolism needs both, glucose is broken down via catabolism and the energy from that is used to make enzymes via anabolism so that the bacteria can 'eat', anabolic and catabolic reactions are c...

biowarfare - intentional use of disease-causing organisms or products of organisms to infect populations to attain a military objective bioterrorism/biocrime - intentional use of disease-causing organisms or products of organisms to infect humans, animals, or plants in order to cause civil unrest and panic or instigate a crime pontiac's rebellion (french and indian war) - the english used variola-laden (smallpox) blankets in 1763 at fort pitt to subdue indians loyal to the french during t...

Backflow of blood caused by poor valve function - Regurgitation Reduced blood flow from the L Atrium to the L Ventricle is known as - Mitral Stenosis Narrowing from the L Ventricle to the Aorta is known as - Aortic Stenosis The degree of stretch at the end of diastole (how much blood is in the ventricles) is known as - Preload An increase in fluids will __________ preload, and a decrease in fluids will ___________ preload - An increase in fluids will increase preload, and a decrease ...

medical dx - only made by doctors nursing dx - used to evaluate the response of the whole person to actual or potential health problems nursing process - - iterative process allowing practitioners to move back and forth while caring for the needs of complex pts. - Includes six phases: assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, evaluation "A Delicious Orange PIE" - Assessment- collect data Diagnosis- interpret data Outcome identification- identify the ...