Nurses in tertiary healthcare settings emphasize:
1. The important role clients play in maintaining their own health
2. Diagnosis and treatment of illness
3. The importance of assisting clients to regain previous capabilities
4. Walk-in screening services
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Rationale 1: The tertiary healthcare setting emphasizes the restoration of ill or injured people to optimum and functional levels of wellness.
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By protecting the information in a patient's record, the nurse fulfills the ethical responsibility of:
a. privacy. b. disclosure. c. confidentiality. d. absolute secrecy.
A patient with atrial fibrillation is taking verapamil [Calan]. The patient has read about the drug on the Internet and wants to know why a drug that affects the rate of ventricular contraction is used to treat an abnormal atrial contraction
What will the nurse tell the patient? a. "Drugs that treat ventricular dysrhythmias help to restore normal sinus rhythm." b. "Atrial dysrhythmias can have life-threatening effects on ventricular function." c. "Treating ventricular dysrhythmias helps prevent the likelihood of stroke." d. "When ventricular contraction slows, atrial contraction is also slowed."
The nurse clarifies that a postmenopausal woman who is not taking hormone replacement therapy should take ____ mg elemental calcium on a daily basis
1. 1000 2. 1500 3. 10,000 4. 15,000
You recently acquired a position as a unit manager
During your time on the unit, you have formed a strong social network among your staff, have promoted the development of relationships between your staff and workers in other areas of the organization, and have formed relationships that generate ideas from patient organizations and the local nursing education program. According to complexity theory, you are engaging which principle? a. Empowerment b. Systematic thinking c. Development of networks d. Bottom-up interactions