After teaching a class to a group of nursing students about the historical perspectives of mental health care, the instructor determines that the group has understood the information when they identify which of the following as a common belief about
mental illness during the medieval period?
A) Mental illness in an individual was the result of being possessed by demons.
B) A person was removed from a contaminated environment to protect him or her.
C) Exorcisms were used as primary mode of treatment to cleanse the person of his or her sins.
D) The focus was on moral treatment to promote the individual's safety and comfort.
B
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The nurse is preparing a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) for discharge. Which instruction should the nurse include in the teaching plan?
A) Exposure to sunlight will help control skin rashes. B) There are no activity limitations between flare-ups. C) Monitor body temperature. D) Corticosteroids may be stopped when symptoms are relieved.
A patient with severe heart failure asks why the prescriber has lowered the dosages of most of the patient's daily medications. What is your best response?
a. "With a weaker heart, the drugs stay in your system longer, so you don't need as high a dosage." b. "Your heart drugs enhance the action of your other drugs, reducing the need for higher dosages." c. "Your heart is not strong enough to tolerate these drugs, making the risk for a heart attack higher." d. "The drugs are very expensive, and with these heart problems your health is not expected to improve."
A nurse explains to a student that a patient's stomach contents will be removed by inserting a double-lumen nasogastric (NG) tube through the nose into the stomach, then connecting the drainage lumen to a suction source
The student correctly identifies this procedure as ____________________. Fill in the blank with correct word.
In a situation in which there are not enough resources to care for everyone who wants and could benefit from care, what would an ethical community/public health nurse do?
A. Ask the agency supervisor how to approach this problem. B. Focus on basic services such as immunization for everyone in the community. C. Give care to everyone who can pay the cost of whatever care they might need. D. Follow agency policies, whatever those policies might be. E. Give care to those workers and their families who have insurance to pay for their care.