A community health nurse has been getting good attendance and group participation in her Saturday class on newborn care for young mothers. The participants receive free transportation and a $10 food voucher for attending
When they participate, prizes are distributed. This nurse is using behavioral theory to encourage clients, focusing the teaching on which of the following concepts?
A) Meeting a hierarchy of needs
B) The learner's self-confidence and personal mastery
C) A person's natural tendency to learn
D) Changes in response to a stimulus
Ans: D
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The nursing student is reviewing the components of a nursing diagnosis. Which statement made by the student indicates correct understanding of a health-promotion diagnostic statement?
a. "The defining characteristics will include the patient's willingness to get better." b. "The risk factors are only psychological in nature, not physical." c. "The health-promotion diagnostic statement is composed of three parts." d. "An example of a health-promotion label is ineffective community coping."
A patient is admitted to the ED with an apparent overdose of IV heroin. After stabilizing the patient's cardiopulmonary status, the nurse should prepare to perform what intervention?
A) Administer a bolus of lactated Ringer's. B) Administer naloxone hydrochloride (Narcan). C) Insert an indwelling urinary catheter. D) Perform a focused neurologic assessment.
A patient diagnosed with depression tells a nurse, "I don't feel rested. It's as though I didn't sleep at all.". Comments by night shift staff show that the patient slept through most of the night
How can these two observations be reconciled? a. The patient is considered the more accurate reporter. b. The staff observations are more objective than the patient's statement. c. Studies show that people with depression have disturbed sleep cycles that can result in sleep deprivation. d. People with depression characteristically underreport sleep satisfaction because of cognition flaws.
After assessing a child with cryptorchidism and assessing the child's family, the nurse writes a diagnosis of anxiety (caregiver)
Which of the following concerns would the anxiety most likely be related to in addition to the child's increased risk of malignancy? a. fear that the child will suffer pain b. child's risk of decreased fertility c. fear of the child having gender confusion d. guilt