The key opportunities for population-focused practice exist because:
1. Population-focused care will replace acute care.
2. Universal health insurance coverage for all Americans will become a reality and subgroups will not need to be monitored.
3. The primary focus of the health care system of the future will be on communi-ty-oriented strategies for health promotion and disease prevention.
4. As more nurse leaders are trained, more students will choose community health nursing as a career.
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Future prediction is stating our health care system will be more focused on disease prevention and health promotion.
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A) Each child will have a 25% chance of inheriting the disease. B) Each child will have a 50% chance of inheriting the disease. C) Each child will have a 75% chance of inheriting the disease. D) Each child will have no chance of inheriting the disease.
A nurse advocates and intervenes between the health care system and the client's cultural beliefs on behalf of the client. Which of the following best describes the nurse's action?
a. Cultural accommodation b. Culture brokering c. Cultural preservation d. Cultural repatterning
Is the following statement true or false?
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a. skull fractures. b. thalamus. c. medulla oblongata. d. frontal lobe.