When assisting with meals, allow the patient to do as much as possible.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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The amount of trash collected in one community is overwhelming local resources to collect and store it. Which is the best approach for the population health nurse to take to help decrease the amount of generated trash?
1. Encouraging use of fewer polluting products. 2. Promoting recycling efforts in the community. 3. Discouraging overuse of materials that generate trash. 4. Educating the community about overbuying household products.
While in the dayroom, one of the patients becomes very agitated and begins to threaten to harm the other patients and is directing violence at the other patients and staff. Appropriate nursing implementations include:
1. decreasing stimuli and using restraints if all other measures fail. 2. offering to call the physician and telling other staff to call security. 3. removing harmful objects and trying to do relaxation exercises with the patient. 4. restraining the patient and keeping him NPO.
An outcome for an older adult patient living alone is to be free from falls. Which of these statements by a patient indicates that teaching on safety concerns has been effective?
a. "I'll leave my throw rugs in place so that my feet won't touch the cold tile." b. "I'll take my time getting up from the bed or chair." c. "I should wear my favorite smooth bottom socks to protect my feet when walking around." d. "I will have my son dim the lighting outside to decrease the glare in my eyes."
The nurse is caring for a patient who finally conceived after several unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilization. The patient has just been diagnosed with a perinatal loss
The nurse's plan of care should include: Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply. 1. Giving accurate and honest information. 2. Encouraging the couple to try right away to get pregnant again. 3. Validating the many losses the patient has experienced. 4. Providing possible explanations for the fetal demise. 5. Assessing where the patient is in the grieving process, and communicating with compassion.