The informatics nurse is reviewing how population-based health data can be used to track disease potential and prevent outbreaks. Which mechanism can be used for this tracking?
A) Chronic disease registries
B) Immunization registries
C) Cancer registries
D) Diabetes registries
B) Immunization registries
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A) True B) False
A nurse is incorporating a cultural assessment into nursing care. Which assessment question by the nurse leads the supervisor to conclude that this nurse needs further education on cultural assessment?
A. What customs and traditions are important to you? B. What kind of insurance coverage do you have? C. When you are stressed or worried, what comforts you? D. Who in your family is important for support?
An unconscious patient is brought to the emergency department by ambulance for trauma treatment
The patient is wearing a sweat-stained John Deere cap, a denim shirt worn out in the elbows, dirty bib overalls covered with patches, work boots worn thin, and ragged underclothes. Several staff laugh as they stabilize the patient, and one remarks, "Farmer John must have fallen off the tractor.". The most appropriate action for the charge nurse is to say: a. "So he's a farmer—get over it. Thank him for your food and move on.". b. "You are violating this man's right to be treated with respect, and it stops now.". c. "Grow up and do your jobs; I think you have all seen poor people before.". d. "Perhaps you could find an outlet for humor that's not at a patient's expense.".
Which nursing care model was prominent before the Depression?
a. Functional nursing b. Group nursing c. Hospital staffing d. Private duty nursing