Exam 2: Health and Wellness

A nurse is assessing a patient's risk factors for heart disease and finds that the patient has several risk factors.How should the nurse interpret this finding?

A nurse is planning to care for a patient with a disease that is a major cause of death and disability in the United States.The nurse is caring for which patient?

A nurse is assessing a patient's stage of behavioral change.Which statement by the patient will indicate to the nurse that the patient is in the preparation stage?

A nurse working in a rural public health clinic is developing a smoking cessation program for patients in the county.This corresponds with Healthy People 2020's efforts to provide direction for health care efforts on what level?

A nurse teaches a patient about physiological risk factors.Which information by the patient indicates more teaching is needed?

To determine a patient's external variables for health beliefs and practices,which area should the nurse assess?

A married father of four has recently been diagnosed with emphysema resulting from a long history of smoking.At a family counseling session a nurse helps the family to understand that this diagnosis is classified as a(n):

A nurse is caring for a patient who smokes two packs a day.The nurse knows that the patient is in the contemplation stage regarding smoking cessation.What is the nurse's best response to help the patient move into the preparation stage?

A registered nurse is working in a community clinic that provides services for chronically ill patients.Which condition would be considered chronic?

Which information by a patient indicates teaching by the nurse was successful for the best definition of health?

Upon taking a history of a patient,the nurse learns the patient smokes a pack of cigarettes per day.How should the nurse interpret this finding?

A nurse allows a patient to place pictures of the family in the room.Which need is being met?

The spouse of a patient with terminal cancer is refusing pain medication for the patient because of previous experiences with soldiers who became addicted to pain medication.A nurse will need to focus on which internal variable when approaching this situation?

A patient states,"I will avoid social situations where people are drinking alcohol so I am not tempted to start drinking again." The nurse assesses the patient to be in which stage of change?

A pregnant mother of two children has been experiencing severe morning sickness and fatigue.Friends and family members have been providing her family with meals,and her husband has been taking responsibility for the housework.This is an example of which type of behavior?

A nurse is teaching the staff about the stages of change.Which information should the nurse include in the teaching session?

A nurse is preparing to help patients with health promotion,wellness education,and illness prevention activities.Which action should the nurse take first?

A nurse should emphasize health promotion,wellness strategies,and illness prevention activities as important forms of health care.Which is considered a health promotion strategy?

A smoker has confided to the nurse that he or she feels like a failure because he or she began smoking again after not having had a cigarette for more than a week.What is the nurse's best response?

Using the health promotion model while rendering care enables a nurse to do which of the following? (Select all that apply.)