The nurse, instructing a group of community members regarding diet and exercise, should instruct healthy adults and children to exercise for:
1. 120 minutes a week.
2. 240 minutes a week.
3. 80 minutes a week.
4. 150 minutes a week.
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Exercise and nutrition go hand-in-hand to prevent chronic disease. Most Americans can enhance their health by moderate aerobic exercise for at least 150 minutes each week. The other choices are either too little exercise or too much exercise to enhance health.
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Which of the following describes the philosophical differences between the trainer's and educator's role?
1. Trainers are concerned with outcomes only whereas educators are concerned strictly with the educational process. 2. Trainers focus on behavior change through skill acquisition while concentrate on learning, thinking, and problem solving as a way to change behavior. 3. Any employee can be a trainer whereas an individual must have an advanced degree to be an educator. 4. Trainers rely on skill acquisition through learning, thinking, and problem solving as a way to change behavior, while educators rely on behavioral psychology which focuses on behavior change.
A 49-year-old man comes to the clinic complaining of awakening at night to void and voiding more than once in a 2-hour time period. The patient has a history of bladder irritation. What would be an appropriate nursing diagnosis for this patient?
A) Ineffective sexuality pattern B) Risk for infection C) Risk for urge incontinence D) Urinary retention
A client comes into the clinic and tells the nurse he goes to an acupuncturist for pain. The nurse says he should take pain medication instead. Which of the following best describes the action taken by the nurse?
a. Cultural conflict b. Cultural blindness c. Cultural relativism d. Cultural imposition
What are the nurse's roles in a patient's drug therapy? (Select all that apply.)
A. To select and order specific drugs B. To mix (compound) and dispense prescribed drugs C. To administer prescribed drugs directly to the patient D. To teach patients about the drugs prescribed E. To only accept drug orders from physicians