A female patient who was admitted after suffering a stroke becomes frustrated because she is unable to respond verbally to the nurse's questions. The nurse, understanding the complications following a stroke, charts that the patient is
1. Dysphasic.
2. Dysphagic.
3. Aphasic.
4. Dyspneic.
ANS: 3
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The nurse is providing sexual education to a group of high school students. What will the nurse explain is the most effective choice of birth control for preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases?
a. Abstain from sex. b. Use the male condom. c. Use the female condom. d. Use the barrier method.
Raise 4/8 to a higher term
1. 8/16 2. 4/16 3. 1/16 4. 2/16
The family members of a client who has just died want to spend time with the client. What should the nurse do to prepare the client for the family?
1. Check the client's religion to make sure care is in compliance with religious expectations. 2. Remove equipment from the room. 3. Permit the family to view the client before postmortem care is done. 4. Change the linens. 5. Place the client in a natural body position.
Access to health care may be more limited for low socioeconomic groups
Barriers to access are policies and financial, geographical, or cultural features of health care that make services difficult to obtain or so unappealing that people do not wish to seek health care. An example of the removal of a barrier to health care is: 1. Subconscious discrimination by providers that are unwilling to treat certain groups 2. Allowing pets to be treated at the same facility 3. Providing free food at a food bank 4. Providing a mobile van staffed by nurse practitioners to provide services for a rural population