The nurse learns that a patient used to follow homeopathic medicine but now only uses allopathic medicine approaches. What is the significance of allopathic medicine?
A. Espouses empiric methods for treating disease
B. Accepts other forms of therapy as valid for treating disease
C. Is practiced only where it is accepted
D. Encompasses different treatment modalities within its framework
Answer: A
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a. Notify the family. b. Notify the attorney. c. Ask how payment will be made. d. Ask about advance directives.
The nurse is caring for two clients in the hospital who are experiencing septicemia. One is Latino and one is Asian-American. When evaluating care for these two clients, what should the nurse consider?
1. The outcomes for each will likely be similar. 2. Culture will play a role in the outcomes for each client. 3. The Latino client will have better outcomes. 4. The Asian-American client will refuse to follow treatment.
You are precepting a new graduate nurse in the ICU. The two of you are caring for a patient who is receiving large volumes of crystalloid fluid as a result of shock. What would you teach the new nurse to monitor the patient for symptoms of?
A) Hypothermia B) Bradycardia C) Coffee ground emesis D) Pain
Which of the following sets of terms represents an appropriate pairing of a probability sampling method and a corresponding nonprobability sampling one?
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