A nurse in a neighborhood clinic is conducting educational sessions on weight loss. What aim of nursing is met by these educational programs?
A) Practicing advocacy
B) Preventing illness
C) Restoring health
D) Facilitating coping
E) Maintaining and promoting health
Ans: B, C, E
If this education is directed toward those who are healthy, weight loss information can help maintain health and prevent illness. If this education is used in those already ill (hypertension, diabetes), weight loss can restore health. The nurse is not practicing advocacy or facilitating coping by providing weight loss education.
You might also like to view...
The nurse is teaching parents of a preschool child strategies to implement when the child delays going to bed. What strategy should the nurse recommend?
a. Use consistent bedtime rituals. b. Give in to attention-seeking behavior. c. Take the child into the parent's bed for an hour. d. Allow the child to stay up past the decided bedtime.
Communicating the right information to the right people at the right time in the right way
A. Is an essential part of the nurse's mission to assess, plan, implement, and document care B. Is a requirement for collaborating with nurse colleagues and all other members of the healthcare team C. Can make the difference between life and death for patients D. All of the above
Which of the following is TRUE regarding retirement investing?
A. Withdrawals from a Traditional IRA are viewed as taxable income B. Withdrawals from a Roth IRA are viewed as non-taxable income C. Employees contributing to a 401(k) plan should invest the full amount which still receives the employer match D. A and C E. All of the above
________. Reduce the answer to the lowest terms. If the answer results in a mixed number be sure to include a space between the whole number and the fraction. Example: 1 1/4 (read as one and one-fourth).
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).