The nurse explains that the major focus of Healthy People 2020 is to improve the health of Americans in the second decade of the century by:
a. funding research.
b. distributing health information.
c. encouraging healthy lifestyles.
d. designing programs for health improve-ment.
C
Healthy People focuses on helping ongoing programs to incorporate support and information to reduce infant mortality, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and HIV/AIDS and to increase effective immunizations, healthy eating habits, and healthy weight.
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A nurse teaches a client who is recovering from a urography. Which instruction should the nurse include in this client's discharge teaching?
a. "Avoid direct contact with your urine for 24 hours until the radioisotope clears." b. "You may have some dribbling of urine for several weeks after this procedure." c. "Be sure to drink at least 3 liters of fluids today to help eliminate the dye faster." d. "Your skin may become slightly yellow from the dye used in this procedure."
A recently licensed nurse states, "My client keeps saying he is in pain. I don't believe him because I had the same surgery last year and didn't feel nearly as bad as he claims." Which response by the more experienced nurse is most appropriate?
1. "It sounds as if your client is a drug seeker." 2. "You should contact the healthcare provider." 3. "I would call the nursing supervisor for this one." 4. "Pain differs from person to person."
With the advent of advanced practice nursing roles, nurses have been given the authority to diagnose (nursing) and treat, as well as prescribe. What has this caused professional nursing organizations to do?
A) Define the practice of nursing more clearly B) Lobby for more independence in nursing C) Lobby for smaller nurse-to-patient ratios D) Define the different nursing specialties more clearly
The new nurse manager is determining how to schedule staff for the holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Finally she decides the most equitable process would be:
A. Have anyone with children get Thanksgiving and Christmas days off no matter what his or her seniority is. B. Assign the holidays randomly so there is no favoritism involved. C. Ask for preferences (first, second, and third choices) and then make a schedule to accommodate everyone's first choice on the specified holiday. D. Assign those with seniority the holidays of their choice and shifts that they request, and fill in with the rest of the staff as to what is still needing coverage.