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The nurse is caring for a client who was burned severely and has scarring on 2/3 of their body. The nurse understands that the client's personal _______ of health defines the client's health status.
perception
The nurse is teaching a client who smokes cigarettes about the ability to control their health through changing behaviors. What type of risk factor describes the behavior of smoking cigarettes?
Modifiable
Sharing confidential client information with individuals on the care team who are not involved in the client's care violates which ethical principle?
Nonmaleficence
Immunization clinics, family planning services, providing poison-control information, and accident-prevention education fall into which level of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention? (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
Primary
What is the first step in the nursing process?
Assessment
Definition of an ACUTE illness
usually has a rapid onset of symptoms and lasts only a relatively short time. Can be treated to return client to healthy state.
Which of the following is a non-modifiable risk factor? Select all that apply: a. family genetic history of breast cancer, b. drinking alcohol, c. smoking, d. aging
a. family genetic history of breast cancer
The nurse is teaching a patient with diabetes how to recognize and prevent complications of the disease. What level of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention is the nurse engaging in?
Tertiary prevention
A nurse is caring for a homeless client in the who needs administration of blood products due to an accident. The client also shares that they are homeless and in need of housing. Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs which level should the nurse address first?
Physiologic (before safety and security [housing])
A nurse incorporates the “five values that epitomize the caring professional nurse” into a home health care nursing practice. Which attribute is best described as acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of practice?
Integrity
A client a "particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage" (Healthy People, 2020).
Health Disparity
What are the six primary risk factors that affect client health?
Age, genetics, physiologic factors, health habits, lifestyle, and environment
A nurse decides they have the right to make a health care decision for a client despite the client's wishes. The represents which ethical principle?
Paternalism
The nurse caring for patients postoperatively uses careful hand hygiene and sterile techniques when handling patients. Which of Maslow’s basic human needs is being met by this nurse?
Safety and security
A home health nurse performs a careful safety assessment of the home of a frail older adult to prevent harm to the patient. The nurse’s action reflects which principle of bioethics?
Nonmaleficence is defined as the obligation to prevent harm.
Definition of CHRONIC illness.
What elements affect the environmental dimension of a client's health?
Housing, sanitation, climate, and pollution of air, food, and water.
The nurse believes that all clients seeking health care should be treated equally and fairly. Which ethical principle does this belief represent?
Justice
A nurse is practicing community-based nursing in a mobile health clinic. What typically is the central focus of this type of nursing care?
Community-based nursing is centered on individual and family health care needs.
b. Promoting universal access to health care
Which of the six Human Dimensions reflects how the mind affects body functions and responds to body conditions and health.
Emotional Dimension
Which of the six Human Dimensions reflects a health status that is strongly influenced by a person’s economic level, lifestyle, family, and culture.
Sociocultural Dimension
The pediatric nurse assesses children for normal growth and development and encouraging regular medical, dental, and vision examinations. Which level of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention is the nurse engaging in?
Secondary
The nurse caring for families in a free health care clinic identifies psychosocial risk factors for altered family health. Which example describes one of these risk factors? a) no dental care insurance, b)no childcare, c) each family member is overweight, d) the youngest child has a birth defect.
Psychosocial
No dental insurance/obese family members: lifestyle
Family member with birth defect: Biologic
The nurse administers pain medication for a client after surgery. Which step of the Nursing Process is the nurse engaging in?
Implementation