Nurses use professional standards of nursing practice while rendering care to patients. These nursing practice standards are essential because they:
A. provide guidelines for active participation in clinical care management.
B. provide a theoretical framework for how to practice.
C. identify nursing competencies and evaluative criteria.
D. offer guidelines for how to perform professionally, exercise care, cure, and coordination.
D
The practice of professional nursing and nursing knowledge have been developed through nursing theory, global views that help to describe, predict, or prescribe activities for the practice of nursing. Competencies and evaluative criteria are established to perform tasks and procedures.
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a. "After the age of 60, the plasma volume decreases so there is less infection fighting ability." b. "Bone marrow activity decreases by about 50% with aging, which lowers the immune response to infection." c. "The elderly person's blood is more prone to clotting, so infection-fighting cells don't get to the source of infection quick-ly." d. "His antibody response to vaccines is overactive."
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1. Water 2. Glucose 3. Amino acids 4. Vitamins 5. Calcium 6. Ammonia