Screening school-age children for hearing deficits is an example of:
1. Primary prevention
2. Secondary prevention
3. Tertiary prevention
4. Health promotion
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Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and prompt treatment of disease, injury, or dis-ability.
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The physician is treating a child with meningitis with a course of antibiotic therapy. When should the nurse expect the child to be out of isolation?
a. When the course of antibiotics is complete b. When a negative CNS culture is obtained c. When the antibiotics have been initiated for 24 hours d. When the child has no symptoms of the disease
A 29-year-old patient whose mother died from an unspecified cancer at the age of 33 has the following diagnostic test results. What would be appropriate for this patient?
1. The patient is scheduled for a prostate exam. 2. The patient is scheduled for a colonoscopy. 3. The patient is scheduled for a mammogram. 4. The patient is scheduled for an ovarian cancer screening examination.
On the second day postpartum following a cesarean birth, at which of the following locations would you expect to palpate the woman's fundus?
A) Two fingers above the umbilicus B) At the umbilicus C) Two fingers below the umbilicus D) Four fingers below the umbilicus
If a person mentions or talks about suicide, you need to do which of the following?
a. Tell the person not to talk that way. b. Take the person seriously by giving him or her consequences for his or her behavior. c. Call for the nurse at once. d. Try to talk the person out of it.