Advising clients not to donate blood, plasma, or organs is which level of prevention for HIV?
1. Primary prevention
2. Secondary prevention
3. Tertiary prevention
4. Health promotion
3
Tertiary prevention includes those interventions aimed at disability limitations and rehabilitation from disease, injury, or disability.
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The nurse is caring for a patient who is terminally ill and can no longer speak. Which best indicates that this patient is in pain?
1. Skin is cool and moist to touch. 2. Facial grimacing with moaning when turned 3. Cyanotic feet and lower legs 4. Cheyne-Stokes respiratory pattern
A hospitalied patient is diagnosed with sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). What action should the nurse implement immediately?
1. standard precautions 2. standard precautions and droplet precautions 3. standard precautions and contact precautions 4. standard, contact, and airborne precautions
Jacket restraints:
a. Are applied with the opening in back b. Can be worn backwards c. Cross in back d. Open at the side
The father of a 15-month-old child with a chronic health condition asks the nurse if his child will experience the "terrible twos." The nurse will base the answer on which of the following beliefs?
a. Children with chronic illness use all their energy coping with the illness and do not tend to go through these age-related stages. b. Developmental stages tend to be delayed, if experienced at all. c. Children with chronic illnesses demonstrate similar age-dependent behaviors as any other child their age. d. Children with chronic illness are often so protected by caregivers that they don't experience the terrible twos.