Exam 2: Contemporary Issues in Women’s, Families’, and Children’s Health Care

A nurse is caring for a patient near the end of life whose wishes regarding care are not known.The two sons disagreed with the two daughters about future medical plans for the patient during a recent family conference,and now the sons and daughters are not talking to one another.What action by the nurse would be best to help resolve this dilemma?

A nurse is working with a parent-teacher association to combat school bullying.What action can the nurse suggest that would best help to decrease this form of interpersonal violence?

A nurse wants to work in the community providing secondary prevention activities.Which action would this nurse choose to do?

A nurse ensures that a patient does not have questions regarding the upcoming surgical procedure and verifies that the signature on the consent form is the patient's signature.Which ethical principle is this nurse demonstrating?

A school nurse is increasingly concerned with a growing absentee problem.To best address this issue,which of the following actions should the nurse take?

A nurse enjoys working with patients who have chronic illnesses.What group of people would this nurse enjoy working with most?

One goal of the Healthy People 2020 initiative is to increase the number of people who have some form of health insurance.What percentage of the population is the target?

The jail nurse is interviewing a woman who has been brought to the clinic for prenatal care.Which of the following are appropriate actions for the nurse to perform?

A nursing student wishes to investigate national health goals.Where should the student research this information?

A nurse working in a women's health clinic has several patients who are from a minority culture,live in the inner city,lack employment that offers benefits,have large families,and often lack transportation to health care.Which of these factors are considered broad determinants of health?

A mother and her 12-year-old daughter visit the clinic often because of the daughter's asthma.The clinic nurse recognizes that one of the most important nursing actions in this situation is which of the following?

The clinic nurse is interviewing a woman and her daughter who describe their address as"temporary." The mother appears thin,pale,and tired.Her blood work confirms anemia and pregnancy.What actions by the nurse would be most helpful?

A practicing nurse tells a student nurse that beyond the World Health Organization's definition of health,providers must also consider which of the following factors when determining the health of a community?

The nurse managing a pediatric clinic often sees single mothers with children.What action by the nurse would best help this population of women access health care?

A nurse reads in the paper that the death rate for women overall has declined substantially.To what does the nurse correlate this finding?

Which childhood illnesses are the subject of a Healthy People initiative regarding vaccinations?

A mother brings her 6-month-old infant and 18-month-old child to the health clinic for a routine visit.The nurse counsels the mother about lead exposure testing.Which information should the nurse include?

A nurse considers beneficence as the guiding ethical principle for nursing practice.Working within that framework,which action by the nurse best demonstrates that concept?

A nurse working in the community uses the public health intervention model to combat diabetes mellitus type 2.Using this model,which interventions are appropriate?

A nurse is working with a patient determined to have low health literacy and has taught the patient vital self-care measures for a chronic illness.How will the nurse best determine if the patient has understood the information?