The nurse encourages the recovering alcoholic to participate in group therapy because of the major and long-lasting benefit of:
a. development of improved social skills.
b. progression toward sobriety.
c. provision of a sense of belonging.
d. increasing self-discipline.
D
The learning of the skill of self-discipline is the long-lasting benefit from group therapy. The other options are also benefits, but the major one is self-discipline, a skill a drug abuser must ac-quire for successful rehabilitation.
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A) Estrogen B) Parathyroid hormone (PTH) C) Calcitonin D) Progesterone
A nurse is teaching a group of patients about the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in older adults. The nurse knows teaching has been effective when a patient states, "Statistically, in a group of 100 older adults in the United States, approximately:
1. 10 will have type 2 diabetes." 2. 17 will have type 2 diabetes." 3. 27 will have type 2 diabetes." 4. 33 will have type 2 diabetes."
A nurse is developing a community program to prevent violence. Which of the following should be the first action taken by the nurse?
a. Talk to people who are victims of violence for their opinion b. Identify factors that lead to violence c. Develop a plan of action to combat vio-lence d. Evaluate current community programs
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She made this recommendation based on the fact that the researchers who developed the program recommended the changes to: 1. Reduce the risk of premature cardiac disease, type 2 diabetes, and colon cancer. 2. Provide a more convenient program for global health improvement. 3. Stress the importance of diet alone to improve health. 4. Eliminate plant oils from the diet to lower cholesterol.