week 9

When the nurse is educating an adult patient about health promotion activities, which of the following is the most important internal patient factor for the nurse to consider?

• emotional wellness

• developmental stage

• professed spirituality

• levels of education and literacy

When a mother brings her child to be seen in a nurse-managed setting, over concerns that her child’s rash could be measles, what type of care is rendered?

• respite care

• primary care

• supportive care

• secondary care

While documenting an adolescent’s health history, the nurse recognizes that the patient began to act out behaviourally and engage in risky behaviour when her parents divorced. In consider-ing a nursing diagnosis of Altered self-concept, the nurse would gather what information?

• how long the parents were married

• how the patient views her behaviours

• why the parents are divorcing

• why she is acting out of control

In conducting a research study, the researcher must inform the participants, in lay language, about the risks and benefits of participating. This is an important aspect of what?

• anonymity

• confidentiality

• informed consent

• the research process

Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?

• information session about healthy lifestyles

• blood pressure screening

• interventional cardiac catheterization

• diagnostic cardiac catheterization

Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?

• education about breast self-exam

• yearly mammograms

• chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer

• complete mastectomy for breast cancer

Which of the following is an example of tertiary prevention activities?

• rehabilitation after a stroke

• chest x-ray to screen for TB

• screening for prostate specific antigen

• childhood immunization for measles and varicella

Who authored the framework that provides the foundation for nursing assessment and diagnosis using the functional health patterns?

• Erikson

• Gordon

• Newman

• Nightengale