What aspects of a patient's culture will the health care provider keep in mind when providing care? Select all that apply:
1. Parts of a person's culture are under conscious control.
2. It is an extension of biological capabilities.
3. It is the medium of social relationships.
4. It identifies food preferences.
5. It explains folklore and music.
1, 2, 3
Explanation: 1. One characteristic of culture is that only part of culture is conscious.
2. One characteristic of culture is that it can be likened to a prosthetic device because it is an extension of biological capabilities.
3. One characteristic of culture is that it is the medium of social relationships.
4. Identification of food preferences is a characteristic of ethnicity.
5. Folklore and music preferences are characteristics of ethnicity.
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a. multiple upper respiratory infections. b. an underproduction of exocrine glands. c. excessive, thick mucus. d. an overproduction of thin mucus.
When evaluating the client's progress toward identifying and demonstrating a more adaptive response to stressful stimuli, the nurse knows that this step is what?
A) Necessary to increase the client's functioning B) Important to enlist the family's support in the treatment C) Integral in the adjustment of pharmacotherapeutic dosing D) Helpful in decreasing the dissociative response
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a. the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information. b. the principal federal entity charged with promoting nationwide sales of advanced health information technology. c. a federal entity charged with increasing public awareness of the value of health information technology. d. a federal agency that regulates the contents and functions of health information technologies, including PHRs.
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