The population health nurse is working with community leaders to ensure that community members' voices are heard when designing activities to promote healthy living. What action is the nurse performing?
1. Health education.
2. Empowerment.
3. Social marketing.
4. Health learning.
Answer: 2
Explanation: 2. Empowerment focuses on the environmental conditionals that affect people's abilities to act in ways that promote health. Health education provides the information and skills that are a part of empowerment and social marketing. Social marketing emphasizes enhancing people's motivation to act and reflects the view of personal agency. Health learning is a type of learning that is a desired result of the health education encounter.
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A nurse is reviewing the liver function panel of a patient's most recent blood work. What liver function test is a sensitive indicator of injury to liver cells and useful in detecting acute liver disease such as hepatitis?
A) Clotting factors B) Serum aminotransferases C) GGT D) Alkaline phosphatase
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What is one performance area where quality improvement (QI) is used to affect process and out-comes of health care?
a. Provision of appropriate and effective care b. Elimination of access barriers c. Reduction of unjustified geographic varia-tion in care d. Application of managed care to all citizens