A nurse recognizes that advocating for organ donation is important because:
1. The supply of donor organs meets the demand of potential recipients.
2. Organ recipients are not expected to have a long life span because of complications associated with the transplant.
3. The organ recipient usually enjoys a better quality of life at less cost to the health care system.
4. The organ recipient is often confined by frequent health care visits in order to maintain health.
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Rationale 1: This is not the case today.
Rationale 2: This is not true.
Rationale 3: Organ recipients are expected to live a longer life with better quality, at a lower cost to the health care system.
Rationale 4: The organ recipient needs expert health care but is not confined by frequent visits to maintain health.
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a. institutions prohibit use of nursing research. b. little clinically relevant research is being done. c. nurses are not usually rewarded for using research findings in practice. d. there is no nursing research to guide clinical practice.
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A) Describing surgery to remove an anterior pituitary tumor B) Teaching the parents to give injections of growth hormone C) Explaining about the radioactive iodine procedure D) Showing the parents how to give DDAVP intranasally
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1. Limit the cost of care. 2. Help evaluate the effectiveness of care. 3. Reduce the number of nurses needed to provide care. 4. Reduce variations when caring for clients with the same health problem. 5. Provide sequence and timing of interventions to help achieve expected client outcomes.