Whose influence on nursing practice in the nineteenth century was related to improvement of patient environment as a method of health promotion?
a. Clara Barton
b. Linda Richards
c. Dorothea Dix
d. Florence Nightingale
D
The influence of Florence Nightingale was highly significant in the nineteenth century as she fought for sanitary conditions, fresh air, and general improvement in the patient environment.
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The public health nurse is participating in a health fair and interviews a patient with a history of hypertension, who is currently smoking one pack of cigarettes per day. She denies any of the most common manifestations of CAD
Based on these data, the nurse would expect the focuses of CAD treatment most likely to be which of the following? A) Drug therapy and smoking cessation B) Diet and drug therapy C) Diet therapy only D) Diet therapy and smoking cessation
The nursing instructor is discussing patients who attempt suicide. What would the nursing instructor tell her students about crisis intervention?
A) It is used to identify areas of stability. B) It is used to determine whether the patient has an adequate support system. C) It is used to discover the last time the patient attempted suicide. D) It is used to determine suicidal potential.
A community/public health nurse is visiting a new teenaged mother in her home. As the teenage mother walked into the room, the baby's grandmother stated, "This whole thing is your fault
Why are you still in this house?" The teenager walked out the front door with her baby. Which of the following reasons explains why the grandmother would say such a thing to her teenage daughter? a. The teenager created the problem; therefore, she should be the one to cope with it. b. The grandmother is jealous that the teenager is young and lacks responsibility. c. The use of scapegoating is an attempt to decrease overwhelming anxiety. d. The fight had begun earlier, and the nurse just witnessed a part of the conversation.