When nurses support the use of those aspects of the client's culture that promote healthy behaviors, they are using:
1. Cultural accommodation
2. Cultural brokering
3. Cultural preservation
4. Cultural repatterning
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Cultural preservation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help the clients of a particular culture to retain and preserve traditional values, so they can maintain, promote, and restore health.
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A. Explain that sturdy head control occurs around 6 months. B. Document the findings and alert the health-care provider. C. Reassure the mother that her baby is completely normal. D. Teach the mother that head control is evident at 9 months.
The nurse is caring for a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. The patient has been taking bexarotene (Targretin). Which laboratory finding would most concern the nurse?
a. Serum albumin 5 gm/dL b. Serum creatinine 1 mg/dL c. Triglycerides 128 mg/dL d. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol 300 mg/dL
Dysrhythmias are a concern for any client. However, the presence of a dysrhythmia is more serious in an elderly person because
A) elderly persons usually live alone and cannot summon help when symptoms appear. B) elderly persons are more likely to eat high-fat diets which make them susceptible to heart disease. C) cardiac symptoms, such as confusion, are more difficult to recognize in the elderly. D) elderly persons are intolerant of decreased cardiac output which may result in dizziness and falls.
Why is Dr. Smith unlikely to prescribe an antihistamine for his patient with asthma?
A. Antihistamines produce a life-threatening reaction called the Response of Lewis in asthma patients. B. Antihistamines promote the production of nasal and bronchial mucus. C. Antihistamines are not therapeutically useful in the treatment of asthma. D. Antihistamines produce disturbances in intestinal activity.