Values
What will be an ideal response?
Personal beliefs about the worth of an object, an idea, a custom, or an attitude
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When including a 12-step program in a client's plan of care, the nurse can expect that stress
mediators will include (more than one answer may be correct) A. social support. B. spiritual support. C. professional therapy. D. health-sustaining habits.
A 41-year-old IV heroin user has been admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of infective endocarditis and begun on IV antibiotic therapy
The patient is eager to be discharged from the hospital and has asked the nurse when he is likely to be discharged. How should the nurse reply? A) "You'll have to talk it over with your health care provider, but it's likely that you can change to oral antibiotics in a few days." B) "Endocarditis involves a very resilient infection, so it's common to need several weeks of IV antibiotics." C) "You'll probably be discharged if your blood cultures are clear in 7 days." D) "Endocarditis takes a long time to treat, but you can probably come for IV antibiotics to the ambulatory clinic once or twice a week."
The Affordable Care Act was designed to address all of the following issues in the existing health-care system with the exception of
1. The cost containment of health care. 2. The expansion of Medicaid programs to cover everyone. 3. The treatment of patients with pre-existing conditions. 4. The removal of lifetime benefit caps.
The patient is presenting to the hospital with a high fever and a productive cough. He says that he hasn't felt right since he returned from visiting Somalia about a month before admission
He also states that he has lost about 20 pounds in the last month and frequently wakes up in the middle of the night sweaty and "clammy." What should the nurse prepare to do? a. Place the patient on contact isolation. b. Place the patient in a negative-pressure room. c. Place the patient on droplet precautions. d. Use standard precautions only.