How does a communicable disease investigation begin?
A. Diagnose the disease, interview those who are ill for contacts, and then find those persons.
B. Diagnose the problem, treat it, and then interview the victim.
C. Identify the disease, isolate the causative agent, and determine the method of transmission.
D. Use the media to share symptoms and causes and then have professionals available to answer telephone calls, being sure to obtain names of victims.
ANS: C
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To those espousing a positivist paradigm, a fundamental belief is that:
A) The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied. B) The researcher cannot interact with those being studied. C) The researcher instructs those being studied to be objective in providing information. D) The distance between the researcher and those being researched is minimized to enhance the interactive process.
The registered nurse is working as charge nurse on a busy high-acuity care unit. Unexpectedly, a coworker becomes ill and needs to leave. There is a period of time in which the unit is short staffed while the ill coworker's replacement travels in to work. What action by the charge nurse is indicated?
1. Make no changes until the replacement nurse arrives. 2. Assign the less acute patients to be cared for by the unlicensed assistive personnel. 3. Assign the unlicensed assistive personnel to watch the monitors and call for help if a patient "gets into trouble." 4. Contact the house supervisor and ask for a float nurse to be sent to the unit.
The nurse reminds the client that in the United States, the most widely used psychoactive substance is
a. alcohol. b. amphetamines. c. caffeine. d. marijuana.
When a nurse works in a health care agency that charts by exception (CBE), he or she knows that the patient assessment is structured by what?
A) Medical diagnoses B) Patient needs C) Standardized norms D) Joint Commission standards