To enable patient empowerment, nurses need to recognize that:
a. health professionals know what is best for patients.
b. patients need help in making health care decisions.
c. patients are responsible for their own health.
d. health professionals give power to patients.
C
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There are many barriers to health care for rural residents. Commonly encountered barriers include all of the following except
1. Failure to appreciate and accept the importance of preventive health services. 2. Financial constraints, because rural residents often do not have health insurance provided by their employer. 3. Lack of easily available, relevant health information. 4. Long distances where residents must sometimes travel up to 40 or more miles to the nearest health care provider.
In addition to decreasing risk factors, it is also important to increase protective factors against drug abuse. Prevention guidelines to teach parents and teachers how to increase resiliency in youths include which of the following strategies?
Select all that apply. 1. Warn youths about the dangers of drugs and the consequence of prison. 2. Help develop increased sense of responsibility for their own success. 3. Help identity their talents. 4. Provide realistic appraisals and feedback and encourage education.
A nurse read that an intervention standardly used in the emergency department (ED) has a U.S. Preventative Services Task Force rating of "I." What action should this nurse take?
1. Continue to use the intervention as it should be "included" in care. 2. Immediately discontinue using the intervention as it "increases" risk for litigation. 3. Discuss the intervention's use with the rest of the ED team because there is "insufficient" evidence to support use. 4. Discuss the intervention's use with the rest of the ED team as it "inflates" healthcare costs.