While researching various health care services that are provided in prisons, a nursing student learns that these services

a. Are funded by the Department of Defense
b. Focus on health promotion interventions
c. Must be provided at an adequate level
d. Are available to those diagnosed with a chronic illness


ANS: C

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The novice nurse is learning about the various types of relationships and how these affect the role of the nurse when providing care to patients with mental illness. What tool do therapeutic relationships use that is not used in social relationships?

1. Shared interest 2. Shared power 3. The process of communication 4. The process of interaction

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The nurse works in an emergency department in a town with a large proportion of retired persons. The nurse should consider which difference between older and younger adults as it pertains to emergency care?

1. Younger patients are at greater risk for rib fractures and flail chest because their chests are not as compliant as those of older adults. 2. Older patients have a greater capacity to increase their cardiac output on demand, and therefore can tolerate greater blood loss than younger patients. 3. Older patients have an increased incidence of subdural hematomas because their veins are more fragile and less elastic compared to those of younger patients. 4. The aorta is comparatively closer to the surface in younger adults, so they are at greater risk of tearing injuries.

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The nurse caring for a 6-month-old child with tetralogy of Fallot, which allows a right to left shunting, would expect to assess in this child:

a. Cyanosis b. Dyspnea c. Bradycardia d. Hypotension

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