A patient who utilizes the biomedical health belief system would be most likely to respond to interventions by a/an
a. diviner.
b. shaman.
c. herbalist.
d. physician.
ANS: D
A physician cures disease based on the biomedical health belief system. The other options refer to persons who cure disease based on the personalistic health belief system.
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a. Staffing level is inadequate, and nurses are unable to check on the patient at regular intervals. b. The patient is verbally abusive to the nursing staff. c. The patient is at an extremely high risk for a fall that is life threatening. d. Medical procedures cannot be performed because the patient is not being coopera-tive.
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A. "Yes, because now you are more susceptible to this infection." B. "Yes, because hepatitis A is widespread and considered to be a sexual transmitted disease." C. "No, your liver and immune system are too impaired at this time to respond ap-propriately to a vaccination for hepatitis." D. "No, this infection has done the same thing a vaccination would and your immune system now makes antibodies against hepatitis A."
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a. HSV Type 2 c. Pneumonia b. HIV d. Syphilis
The electrical activity of the patient's heart is being continuously monitored while he is on the coronary care unit. Suddenly, the nurse finds that the patient is experiencing ventricular fibrillation
Which of the following actions should the nurse prepare to take? a. Administer atropine. b. Prepare for CPR and defibrillation. c. Prepare the patient for surgical placement of a pacemaker. d. Instruct the patient to perform the Valsalva manoeuvre.