Keeping your skills and knowledge up to date is important, because health care is an ever-changing profession.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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The development of HIT policy advisory boards should reflect the needs of all citizens. To gather data needed to create appropriate policies, special interest groups become part of the assessment and planning process
To that end, which of the following groups support or impact health care policy? Select all that apply. 1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Policy 2. Alliance for Health Reform 3. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations 4. American Hospital Association 5. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The nurse in the pediatric unit is preparing a newly diagnosed diabetic child for discharge. The discharge planning will focus on the educational needs of the patient and family. The nurse understands that:
a. The physician will handle the self-management b. Compliance is extremely important to managing diabetes c. The complications associated with diabetes are minor d. Diabetes affects only one system of the body
While palpating the anterior chest, the nurse notes crackling in the skin around the patient's chest tube insertion site. The nurse recognizes this finding is:
a. Tactile fremitus b. Egophony c. Bronchophony d. Crepitus
A primary care NP orders thyroid function tests. The patient's TSH is 1.2 microunits/mL, and T4 is 1.7 ng/mL. The NP should:
a. assess the patient for symptoms of hyperthyroidism. b. ask the patient about the use of medications such as lithium. c. tell the patient that the results most likely indicate hypothyroidism. d. ask an endocrinologist to evaluate for possible Hashimoto's thyroiditis.