Which area is the major focus of Healthy People 2020 and the primary mechanism through which to improve the health of Americans in the second decade of the century?

a. Research funding
b. Health information distribution
c. Healthy lifestyle encouragement
d. Health improvement program designs


C
Healthy People 2020 focuses on expanding ongoing programs to include support and information to reduce infant mortality, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and HIV/AIDS, and to increase effective immunizations, healthy eating habits, and healthy weight.

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Following his endoscopy, Mr. Gaines has begun complaining of severe shoulder and abdominal pain. His symptoms may be due to

A) perforation, allowing air into the abdominal cavity. B) a reaction to the contrast media. C) internal bleeding. D) the study itself; these are normal findings.

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The nurse is caring for a patient who states that he has been taking his medications and following his diabetic diet carefully. Which test result indicates to the nurse that the patient has not been compliant with the treatment plan?

a. Hemoglobin A1C 16% b. Random blood sugar (RBS) 112 mg/dL c. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) 55 units/L d. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) 14 mm/hr

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A patient was scheduled for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, but complications developed and he underwent an open cholecystectomy with a T-tube inserted into the common bile duct. The purpose of the T-tube is to

a. decompress the duct and relieve pain caused by stimulation the sphincter of Oddi. b. improve diaphragmatic expansion and prevention of atelectasis. c. shorten postoperative recovery and hasten the healing process. d. keep the duct open and allow drainage of the bile until edema resolves.

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Which statements best describes the differences between Heideggerian and Husserlian phenomenology? (Select all that apply.)

a. Husserl proposed that the researcher could identify and set aside his or her own private attitudes and opinions before data analysis. b. Heidegger postulated that a person interacted with the world only through his or her physical body. c. Heideggerians believe that the past has no influence on present thought. d. Heideggerian phenomenologists posit that the person is situated in a specific context and time that shape his or her experiences, paradoxically freeing and constraining the person's ability to establish meanings through language, culture, history, purposes, and values. e. Husserl developed his ideas as a method for understanding and avoiding conflict between psychology and the basic sciences.

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