The nurse is planning a trip with a missionary group to an underdeveloped country in Africa
To help combat this country's issues with infectious diseases, what should the nurse recommend as approaches to reduce the ongoing risk of spreading disease? (Select all that apply.)
1. Nutrition
2. Vaccination
3. Employment
4. Containment
5. Improved hygiene
Correct Answer: 2, 4, 5
The predominant communicable disease prevention strategies include vaccination, improved water, sanitation, and hygiene along with case surveillance, reporting, and containment. Nutrition and employment are not identified as approaches to reduce the risk of spreading disease.
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The nurse is caring for a client who requires spine surgery to remove bone fragments and fuse the vertebrae with bone from which location?
A) Iliac crest B) Floating rib C) Femur D) Mandible
The nurses have been instructed on the use of an evidence-based practice method to monitor patients; however, several nurses continue to conduct patient monitoring using the previous method
Which of the following can be done to increase the use of the evidence-based practice method? 1. Review the evidence-based material again with those nurses who are not using the new method. 2. Assign the nurses not using the new method to participate in gathering data for a research study. 3. Ask the nurse manager to review the performance expectations. 4. Determine that either method would be appropriate for the nurses to use.
A nurse asks the nurse manager how accountability in health care-related professions can be evaluated. The nurse manager explains that staff accountability can be evaluated by:
a. their actions and the ability to state when they have been wrong. b. the ability to support their actions and justify the results. c. the ability to report, justify, or explain actions. d. processes and experiences.
Which are common with spina bifida?
a. Bowel and bladder problems b. Breathing problems c. Seizures d. Behavior problems