Community-and-Public-Health-
Nursing-3rd Edition DeMarco
Walsh Test Bank
nursing
, A nurse is striving to practice patient-centered care at a
hospital. Which action best exemplifies providing patient-
centered care?
A) Having a client complete a self-reported functional
status indicator and then reviewing it with the client
B) Explaining to a client the benefits of computer-
assisted robotic surgical techniques, which the
hospital recently implemented
C) Recording a client's signs and symptoms in an electronic
health record
D) Performing continuous glucose monitoring of a client
while the client is in the hospital
Ans: A
Feedback:
Patient-centered care considers cultural traditions,
personal preferences, values, families, and lifestyles. Clients
become active participants in their own care, and
monitoring health becomes the client's responsibility. To
help clients and their healthcare providers make better
decisions, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) has developed a series of tools that empower clients
and assist providers in achieving desired outcomes,
including client-reported functional status indicators.
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, Computer-assisted robotic surgical techniques, electronic
health records, and continuous glucose monitoring in the
hospital are all technological advances in healthcare, but
they do not help the client become a more active participant
in his or her care, and thus are not good examples of
patient-centered care.
Origin: Chapter 1- Public Health Nursing, 2
2. A nurse is caring for an older client who is struggling to
manage her type 2 diabetes mellitus. The nurse should
recognize which social determinants of this client's health?
(Select all that apply.)
A) Household income of $23,000 per year
B) Reading level of a third grader
C) Medication ineffective due to error in prescription
D) Originally from Sudan
E) No family in
the area Ans: A, B,
D, E Feedback:
The social conditions in which people live, their income,
social status, education, literacy, home and work
environment, support networks, gender, culture, and
availability of health services are the social determinants
of health. These conditions have an impact on the extent to
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, which a person or community possesses the physical,
social, and personal resources necessary to attain and
maintain health. A medical error on the part of the client's
primary care provider or nurse would not constitute a
social determinant of the client's health.
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