After teaching a group of students about public health nursing and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,
the instructor determines that the students need additional instruction when they state which of the following is necessary to qualify for a position in the Corps?
A) Age over 45 years
B) Bachelor's degree in nursing
C) Valid nursing license
D) U.S. citizenship
A
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Small mole-like, raised areas around the areola on the breast are called:
a. Montgomery tuber-cles c. lactiferous glands b. Miller tubercles d. areolar glands
The nurse is conducting a health history interview for a toddler-age patient who is unable to verbalize answers to questions. Which action by the nurse is appropriate in this situation?
1) Asking the parent about eating habits 2) Asking the parent about attention span 3) Asking the parent about sleep patterns 4) All of the above.
The nurse is working in a post-partum unit and is assigned to care for a woman who experienced fetal demise at 40 weeks. The nurse is not comfortable caring for this type of patient, so the best course action for the nurse to take is to:
1. Take the patient and provide the care needed. No one is good at providing care to patients who experience fetal demise. 2. Talk to the charge nurse and see if there is a nurse with more experience in caring for patients who experience a fetal demise. 3. Take the patient. All nurses need to learn to take care of patients who experience a death. 4. Talk to the charge nurse and refuse to take the patient. It is not fair to take a patient the nurse is not comfortable with caring for.
The client with schizophrenia tells the nurse that rats have started to eat his brain. The best response by the nurse would be:
A) "Have you discussed this with your physician?" B) "How could that be possible?" C) "You cannot have rats in your brain." D) "You look OK to me."