A community/public health nursing faculty member discusses with students the significant changes in the U.S. health care system. Why is this information important to discuss with this population?
a. Helps orient students to their options for health insurance
b. Helps students understand health behaviors
c. Helps students determine where they wish to seek employment
d. Helps meet accreditation requirements for the curriculum
ANS: B
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Which of the following interventions will help facilitate the infant's immediate mental health needs? 1. Notify the infant's physician to come and talk with the parents 2. Facilitate stroking and touching their infant 3. Continue to observe their interactions to rule out a problem with bonding 4. Have them meet with other parents of premature infants
Older patients have a separate set of issues that affect their use of alcohol and other drugs. Some of these issues are all of the following except:
1. a higher rate of alcoholism in retirement communities. 2. peer pressure to drink more at social occasions. 3. using alcohol to relieve the stress of aging. 4. drinking to cope with social isolation.
Two nursing students are discussing psychiatric–mental health nursing and the role it has played in nursing's overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale. B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix. C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization. D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
Critical thought is a(n)
a. disciplined, rational, and self-directed activity that uses standards and criteria. b. intuitive process that relies only on the nurse's experience. c. persuasive process leading to sound decisions. d. reactive process after an intervention is completed.