The faith community nurse who is available for health counseling with teens before and after youth activities is practicing which level of prevention?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Assessment
B
Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and prompt treatment of disease, injury, or dis-ability.
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Which of the following assumptions about family will assist the nurse to plan and deliver meaningful care? Select any that apply
1. The nurse has limited information about family function. 2. Individual family members seldom have only one problem at a time. 3. Disease management may be influenced by family responsibilities. 4. Family members are not able to prioritize activities related to health care.
A patient has symptoms of acute anxiety related to the death of a parent in an automobile accident 2 hours earlier. The nurse should prepare to teach the patient about a medication from which group?
a. Tricyclic antidepressants b. Atypical antipsychotics c. Anticonvulsants d. Benzodiazepines
The coordinator of the basic life-support systems of the body is the
A. medulla B. pons C. cerebellum D. limbic system
The nurse is staffing a medical-surgical unit that is assigned most of the patients with pressure ulcers
The nurse has become competent in the care of pressure wounds and recognizes that a staged pressure ulcer that does not require a dressing is stage a. I. b. II. c. III. d. IV.