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Test Bank For Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations 8th Edition by Nies | 9780323795319 | | Chapter 1-34 | All Chapters with Answers and Rationals$17.99
Test Bank For Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations 8th Edition by Nies | 9780323795319 | | Chapter 1-34 | All Chapters with Answers and Rationals
Test Bank For Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations 8th Edition by Nies | 9780323795319 | | Chapter 1-34 | All Chapters with Answers and Rationals
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,Chapter 01: Health: A Community View
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1. Which best describes the primary reason that Americans are concerned about health care?
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b. The media has provided mixed messages about the health care system.
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d. The new health care system offers free services to Americans.
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The primary reason for the focus on health care is the constantly increasing costs, which cannot
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be sustained. The costs of caring for the sick accounted for the majority of escalating health car
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e dollars, which increased from 5.7% of the gross domestic product in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015.
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Politicians and the media both influence Americans‘ perceptions about health care; however, th
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ey are not the primary reason why Americans are concerned. The new health care system will ch
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ange the health care access and availability, but will not necessarily be offering any free service
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s to Americans.
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2. A nurse has begun to lobby with politicians for changes to the health care system. Why is this in
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d. Nurses are the only group that is employed both inside and outside of hospitals.
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As the largest segment of health care providers, nurses are informed about the current health ca
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re system and all the problems that result from people not seeking care until they are desperatel
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y ill. Nurses, as the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasize, usually believe that healt
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h care is a right, not a privilege. Therefore, nurses, whose work is central to our current health c
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are delivery system, can also be instrumental in working politically to create a health care deliv
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ery system that will meet health needs. While nurses are in several current TV series and are em
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ployed both inside and outside of hospitals, physicians and other health care providers are as we
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ll. Nurses are often managers, but managers often have other backgrounds, such as business ad
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ministration.
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3. What conclusion can be drawn from examining where nurses are employed?
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a. There is a trend toward consolidation of health care into large central medical c
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c. There is an obvious need to decrease health care costs by cutting positions.
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d. Managed care organizations (MCOs) are employing nurses to improve customer fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi fi
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