The nurse is determining if a female client is at risk for benign breast disease. Which of the following is a risk factor for this disorder?
1. Smoking
2. Caffeine use
3. Alcohol intake
4. Age 55
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Risk factors for benign breast disease include caffeine use, imbalance between estrogen and progesterone, estrogen excess, hyperprolactemia, and age between 20 to 50 years. Smoking and alcohol intake are not risk factors for benign breast disease.
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A home health nurse is reinforcing health education with a patient who is immunosuppressed and his family. What statement best suggests that the patient has understood the nurse's teaching?
A) "My family needs to understand when I can go get the seasonal flu shot." B) "I need to know how to treat my infections in a home setting." C) "I need to understand how to give my platelet transfusions." D) "My family needs to understand that I'll probably need lifelong treatment."
Which statement is an operational definition of a concept?
a. Death anxiety is an uncomfortable feeling on contemplation of one's own death, measured by Templar's Death Anxiety Scale (Templar, 1986). b. Pain is a pattern of responses to protect the organism from harm (Sternbach, 1979). c. Maternal identity entails maternal cognitions and affect with regard to the maternal-infant relational system (Walker and Montgomery, 1994). d. Spirituality is a way of being or experiencing that comes about through an awareness of a transcendent dimension and one's identifiable values with regard to self, other, nature, and whatever one considers to be ultimate (Elkins, 1988).
Researchers communicate their aims as problem statements, statements of purpose, research questions, or hypotheses. What does the following statement represent, "Nausea and vomiting are common side effects among patients on chemotherapy, and interventions to date have been only moderately successful in reducing these effects? New interventions that can reduce or prevent these side effects need to be identified."
A) Hypothesis B) Problem statement C) Statement of purpose D) Research question
What variable does scale development begin?
A) Latent B) Content C) Independent D) Dependent