Describe the difference between nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis. Explain why both diagnoses are necessary.
What will be an ideal response?
The physician collects information, diagnoses, and treats human illnesses. Nurses collect information, then use it to diagnose and treat the human response to illness. The physician focuses on curing the condition. Nurses focus on caring for the patient's human needs and her response to the medical condition. To ensure an accurate and consistent plan of care, both medicine and nursing are necessary for positive patient outcomes.
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A) cardiogenic shock. B) neurogenic shock. C) anaphylactic shock. D) hypovolemic shock.
Which of the following tasks can a nurse delegate to a Nursing Assistive Personnel (NAP)? Select all that apply
a. Taking vital signs b. Collecting a urine specimen c. Suctioning a client's trach tube d. Feeding a 2-month-old infant e. Performing a catheterization f. Giving a bed bath to an elderly client whose condition is stable
Which group of the homeless population is often characterized by most Americans as the unworthy poor?
a. those who are physically ill b. fathers of working age c. those who are uneducated d. children and their mothers
An individual asks the nurse to explain yoga. Which of the following statements would be made by the nurse?
a. Yoga requires the ability to assume and maintain certain poses. b. There are many different types of yoga. c. Yoga is the most strenuous of the movement therapies. d. The major benefit of yoga is an increase in physical exercise and flexibility.