Designing therapeutic activities that move a patient from one state of health to another is an example of
a. a nursing diagnosis. c. nursing outcomes.
b. nursing interventions. d. the nursing process.
B
Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified health alteration. An essential and distinguishing feature of any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health condition. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes occurs formally at intervals designated in the outcome criteria. The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is cyclic, not linear.
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a. acquiring knowledge of the patient's sexual roles. b. developing an understanding of human sexual response. c. clarifying the nurse's personal values about sexuality. d. assessing the patient's sexual functioning and needs.
Which of the following best describes the challenges when providing care to someone from a minority group? (Select all that apply.)
a. Communication, both words and gestures, may be unfamiliar. b. Few members of the minority group are nurses themselves. c. Immigrants will soon adapt to the mainstream culture, but in the meantime many are clinging to "the old ways." d. So few patients are minority group members that it is difficult to remember how they prefer to receive care. e. The nurse may have to confront personal values and beliefs.
The population health nurse is concerned that a group of lifeguards who refuse to use sunscreen might develop skin cancer. On what is the nurse focusing this concern?
1. Risk. 2. Cases. 3. Mortality. 4. Morbidity.
When tacrolimus is compared with cyclosporine, tacrolimus may be preferred because:
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