Which of the following actions is considered most important by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
a. Assisting in recognizing and detaining known terrorists
b. Educating health professionals to recognize and treat biochemical hazards
c. Establishing and maintaining a database about known biochemical hazards
d. Printing and distributing informational materials about known biohazards
ANS: B
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The nurse is interviewing a male patient who has a hearing impairment. What techniques would be most beneficial in communicating with this patient?
a. Determine the communication method he prefers. b. Avoid using facial and hand gestures because most hearing-impaired people find this degrading. c. Request a sign language interpreter before meeting with him to help facilitate the communication. d. Speak loudly and with exaggerated facial movement when talking with him because doing so will help him lip read.
A nurse examining the political processes at different levels of government would recognize which of the following processes as occurring at the state level?
a. Flu-injections program c. Medicare b. Nursing licensure d. Medicaid
During early adolescence, the adolescent's interactions with the opposite sex are usually:
a. carried out cautiously in one-on-one interactions b. considered dangerous and approached in the security of one's clique c. conducted mainly in the company of another couple or several couples d. limited to interactions forced on the adolescent by caregivers or other adults
There are differing viewpoints surrounding the withholding and withdrawal of treatment. Which of the following situations constitutes the most acceptable application of the withholding and/or withdrawal of treatment?
A) A competent patient expresses a desire that hydration and nutrition be discontinued. B) The potential benefits of a patient's antibiotic therapy exceed the likely risks. C) A patient's family will be forced to pay out-of-pocket for the patient's life support due to a lack of insurance coverage. D) A patient's children wish to discontinue the patient's treatment because they have lost faith in the care team.