For over 40 years, the U.S. government played a major role in the development and promotion of telehealth through various agencies. Which of the following was the first telehealth service provided?
1. Telephone consultations
2. Robotics telesurgery
3. Prison inmate care
4. Telepsychiatric treatment
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Rationale: Telehealth began with the use of telephone consults and has become more sophisticated with each advance in technology.
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a. instruct the patient to remove the undergarments. b. allow the patient to wear the undergarments only at night. c. allow the patient to wear the undergarments only during the day. d. remove the undergarments in emergency situations only.
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A school nurse decided to begin a "don't smoke, don't start" program. To determine whether the program has any effect, an experimental trial study was planned. Which of the following actions would the nurse take?
a. Divide the students into two groups (smokers and nonsmokers), teach the course to both groups, and then observe for changes in beliefs. b. Divide the students into two randomly chosen groups, teach the program to all students, and then determine learning and smoking behaviors through a posttest. c. Use two randomly chosen groups, teach the program to one group, and then determine differences in knowledge and smoking behaviors between the two groups. d. Screen each student, and look for evidence of smoking behaviors.
A nurse is presenting to a church group a program about domestic violence
During the presentation, a member of the audience asks the nurse to explain what "intergenerational transmission of violence" means because he has seen that phrase used in the media. Which of the following responses by the nurse would be most appropriate? A) "People who are violent are that way because of the various neurochemical imbalances in their brains." B) "People who grow up in violent home situations tend to be involved in domestic violence situations as an adult." C) "Recent research has identified a gene that is responsible for transmission of a risk for violent behavior that is passed on from generation to generation." D) "Domestic violence seems to skip every other generation when it is traced in families."