A nurse advocates and intervenes between the health care system and the client's cultural beliefs on behalf of the client. The nurse's action is called cultural:
a. Accommodation
b. Brokering
c. Preservation
d. Repatterning
B
Culture brokering is advocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client's culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients.
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The population health nurse assists a homeless adolescent with a substance abuse problem enroll in school, to find work, and to enroll in a recovery program. Recognizing that empowerment may occur at a variety of levels, what best describes the higher end
of the continuum in relation to this scenario? The nurse assists: 1. A community organization to link with legal advocates and others to promote legislation to protect the civil rights of homeless adolescents. 2. A group of homeless adolescents to form a support group. 3. In creating an organization composed of homeless adolescents and members of the social services community to address the health care needs of homeless adolescents. 4. In organizing local housing for homeless adolescents.
During an assessment of the feet, the nurse asks the patient to sit, feet dangling, and point the toes toward the nose. The nurse is assessing which movement?
1. Plantar flexion 2. Dorsiflexion 3. Eversion 4. Inversion
Which of the following is a measure of the density of a substance?
A. mass B. concentration C. specific gravity D. weight
The client has been diagnosed with diabetes insipidus. What will the best plan by the nurse include?
1. Assess for increased urine production. 2. Assess for hyperglycemia. 3. Assess for hyponatremia. 4. Assess for fluid retention.