Among all preventable deaths in the US, which is the greatest causal agent?
A. motor vehicle accidents
B. tobacco
C. alcohol
D. STDs
Answer: B. tobacco
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A busy ICU unit has a high noise level. The charge nurse is frustrated due to the noise level and the inability to focus when entering physicians? orders into the electronic medical record
Which of the following would be an appropriate action by the ICU nurse manager? 1. Decrease the noise level on the unit. 2. Inform other staff they are to lower their voices. 3. Close the doors to the clients? rooms. 4. Arrange an area that is quiet and removed from the nurse?s work area to enter orders.
The nurse assures a 50-year-old patient recovering from a stroke that because she is going to a long-term care facility for a short stay:
a. her regular hospitalization insurance will pay for the care. b. she will still have daily physician visits. c. she will need to contract outside physical therapy services. d. she will probably be discharged within 6 months.
What is the primary focus of communication during the nurse–patient relationship?
A) time available to the nurse C) patient and patient needs B) nursing activity to be performed D) environment of the patient
Of the following statements about anorexia nervosa, which are accurate? (Select all that apply.)
a. It is an eating disorder that results in extreme obesity. b. It is considered a culture-bound syndrome. c. It is an epidemic among American teenagers. d. It is often discovered only when friends see the person vomiting meals. e. It is seen in socioeconomic classes that emphasize thinness. f. It is seen in very low income, lower socioeconomic class women.