A 58-year-old patient with diabetes is recuperating from a broken hip and is concerned about how to pay for rehabilitation.
What is the rehabilitation act of 1973
mental, physical, social, and emotional adaptation to the environment
What is current view of health
A number of the attendees become ill after the picnic
What is common Vehicle
the balance between positive and negative ions. What is responsible for the regulation of this process?
What is Diffusion
Contract for 10 seconds and relax for 3 to 4 seconds
What are Kegel Exercises
Meeting with residents of low-income housing to identify their health care needs
What is community Health Nursing
Nurse Response: If herbs and vitamins are not harmful, then they will be integrated into the plan of care.
Patient taking herbal supplements
Bronchodilators and corticosteroids
What are drugs that inhibit the immune response
Every time the right arm is raised, a patient reports to the nurse that pain is triggered in the right shoulder.
What is aggravating Factor
I will attain the greatest degree of independence possible
What is rehabilitation
Visiting and assessing the home care and further teaching needs of a patient who has been recently discharged from the hospital
What is home health nursing
As the nurse speaks to the husband, the husband sobs, “This is awful. I can’t take it anymore.” What is the husband experiencing?
What is Stress
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new guidelines for infection control.
What are standard precautions
Where does the perception of pain originate in the gate control theory?
What are small nerve fibers
Home Health: Teaching a patient to self-administer insulin
What is reimbursable by Medicare
Variation in degree of health or illness
Health-Illness Continuum
What nursing action should be implemented when dealing with a patient who is an alcoholic in denial
What are ways to reduce drinking
priority assessment of a patient with severe metabolic acidosis after ingesting a whole bottle of baby aspirin
What is mental and neurologic assessment
It dehumanizes older individuals
What is ageism
Sweat
What is the body's first line of defense
A patient who was recently diagnosed with HIV tells the nurse that she is so grateful for her children and family because she does not know what she would do without them.
What is internal family
A nurse explains that a medication given to a patient with a severe inflammatory response mimics a hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex.
What is cortisol
What does grief allow a patient to achieve
What is Reappraise her values for the future.
“I wet my pants every time I cough.”
Stress incontinence
System that maintain fluid balance
What is circulatory and renal