How can a nursing assistant's own attitude toward dying influence the care they give to dying patients?
What will be an ideal response?
If the idea of death is uncomfortable to the nursing assistant, he
or she might act nervous around dying patients, hurry their care,
handle them in a rough manner, or believe that the dying
patient's needs are not important.
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Which of the following are not demographic type data?
a. Age, gender b. Age, socioeconomic status c. Marital status, living arrangements d. All of these are demographic data.
A 28-year-old male patient is diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease. Which information is most appropriate for the nurse to include in teaching at this time?
a. Complications of renal transplantation b. Methods for treating severe chronic pain c. Discussion of options for genetic counseling d. Differences between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
A psychiatric nurse whose area of practice is tertiary prevention of mental illness is asked to describe the focus of this type of practice. The nurse can best describe it as:
a. enriching the understanding of mental illness. b. preventing mental illness from occurring initially. c. limiting disability related to an episode of mental illness. d. increasing community awareness of the symptoms of mental illness.
Percentages that estimate the probability of inferences in a study being correct are reported as
a. confidence intervals. b. standard deviations. c. percentiles. d. correlations.