A nursing student develops a teaching plan about hand washing to present to a group of elementary school children at the local school. This student is using which of the 17 public health interventions?
1. Collaboration
2. Surveillance
3. Health teaching
4. Screening
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Health teaching communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities.
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While caring for the client with a mental illness, which action by the psychiatric–mental health nurse best indicates use of Hildegard Peplau's nursing theory?
1. Establishing a therapeutic nurse-client relationship 2. Intervening to enhance the client's abilities to perform self-care 3. Assessing client's interactions with their environment 4. Evaluating the effectiveness of the client's coping and adaptation skills
What nursing action should be implemented to help combat anorexia in a patient with COPD?
a. Recommend a large meal in the middle of the day. b. Suggest taking only cold liquid nutritional drinks. c. Perform oral hygiene before meals. d. Gently exercise for 10 minutes before a meal.
Which of the following is not appropriate in writing client-centered measurable outcomes?
A) The client or a part of the client B) A flexible time frame C) Observable, measurable terms D) The action the client will perform
A patient is dying. The person has trouble breathing. Which position will the person most likely prefer?
a. Prone b. Supine c. Dorsal recumbent d. Semi-Fowler's