In addition to monitoring of current health problems, establishing a baseline information for future examinations, and validating the complaints that brought the patient to seek health care, the nurse uses the physical examination for which of the
following? a. prescribing medications needed
b. satisfying nurse and patient curiosity
c. establishing patient's ability to pay for care
d. formulating the nursing diagnoses and treatments
D
In addition to monitoring of current health problems, establishing a baseline information for future examinations, and validating the complaints that brought the patient to seek health care, the nurse uses the physical examination to formulate the nursing diagnoses and treatments. Nurses do not prescribe medications or establish a patient's ability to pay for care. The physical examination is purposeful and not conducted to satisfy curiosities.
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