While admitting a patient with a particular religious heritage, the nurse comments to another nurse, "This is going to be a pain. This kind of patient always has a million family members in and out, and they're always so noisy and demanding." This illustrates:
a) Discrimination
b) Sexism
c) Ethnocentrism
d) Prejudice
Answer: d) Prejudice
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A nurse is planning to present a lecture/discussion on health maintenance to adolescents in their high school health class. The nurse will include which topic in the presentation information?
1. Limiting refined sugar and high-fat intake 2. Resources for treatment of eating disorders for all adolescents 3. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance 4. The importance of decreasing calcium intake once full adult height is achieved
A researcher makes generalizations beyond the population being studied. This is known as what?
a. Accurate b. Appropriate c. Inappropriate d. Supportable
Your 70-year-old client suffers from severe, escalating pain secondary to metastatic prostate cancer. He has been referred to hospice for palliative care
He believes that the pain will never go away because it is punishment from God for the bad things he has done. Which of the following nursing diagnoses would be appropriate? 1. Ineffective coping 2. Hopelessness 3. Acute pain 4. Chronic pain
The nurse is conducting a group education session for clients who have been diagnosed with depression. The nurse evaluates the education as effective when a client makes which comments about the cause of depression?
Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. "Depression results from parents who are cold and distant and don't really care about their children." 2. "Depression results from unresolved conflicts in your childhood." 3. "We really don't know what causes depression; it has not been studied very much." 4. "Depression can be an inherited illness." 5. "Depression has many causes; they could include environmental as well as brain-based disorders."