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| Which of the following has not been a central issue in the 1990s debate about healthcare reform? |
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| Preventing epidemics and the spread of disease, such as sexually transmit disease, is an example of: |
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| A retired military woman who has severe diabetes and no health insurance comes to you for information on health care programs available to her because she has no other form of insurance. Where should you refer this client? |
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| refer the client to a rural public clinic |
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| What level of care are you delivering when caring for a hospice client at home? |
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| The largest group of healthcare providers in the United States comprises: |
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| A system that assumes responsibility and accountability for the health of a population for a set fee is: |
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| Which of the following publications promotes the goals of disease prevention and health promotion for all citizens in the United States? |
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| A major problem facing the U.S. healthcare system in the 21st century is: |
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| appropriate access to care |
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| What is one of the important determinants in the poor showing of U.S. health outcomes when compared to other industrialized nations? |
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| lack of universal access to quality health care |
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| Where do many of the uninsured receive care? |
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| What level of healthcare delivery has been the focus of the U.S healthcare system until comparatively recently |
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| Which of the following is defined as federal financial medical assistance to the poor and medically indigent, funded through federal and state matching funds, and administered by each individual state? |
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| Medicare Part A covers all of the following groups or services except |
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| What is the greatest counterforce to collaboration in addressing the economic issues facing the promotion of health care? |
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| nursings lack of unity regarding financing of health care |
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| Healthcare cost containment measures include which of the following? |
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| reimbursing advanced practice nurses in primary care settings |
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| The term for the monetary total of all finished goods and services produced within a nation in 1 year is: |
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| Access to health care has historically been recognized as a professional issue for which of the following? |
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| A major barrier to healthcare access includes |
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| inability to pay for services |
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| Currently, the source of healthcare financing contributing the highest percentage to the cost of health care is: |
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| What was established in the 1960s as an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1935? |
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| Which of the following is a factor that has contributed to high and rising health costs? |
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| increased government healthcare payments |
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| What is one important way for community health nurses to support patients in the current economic environment of health practice? |
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| Helping patients become informed as consumers in consumer-driven health care |
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| Which federal agency is the most involved with the health and welfare concerns of Americans |
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| Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |
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| A state's legal basis for its governmental role in health care, such as mandatory seat belt use, is termed: |
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| The use of medical lobbyists, such as the AMA, to act as a "voice" for the nursing community is a role of the community health nurse in the political process. |
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| Which of the following best describes "state power" in relation to healthcare policy? |
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| All of the following are branches of the federal government except: |
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| As a nurse working in a local jail, you know that an essential function of correctional nursing is providing: |
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| All of the following are major activities of forensic nursing except: |
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| What was the first federal program to provide health care for citizens other than federal employees? |
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| By which of the following is statutory law established? |
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| Who may introduce a bill to a legislature? |
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| a member of the legislature |
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| Which of the following best exemplifies "police power" in regard to legislation and health? |
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| State government protection of residents through immunization requirements |
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| Which of the following must occur for nurses to effectively influence healthcare policy relating to nursing practice |
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| Higher membership levels in the ANA and other nursing organizations |
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| A governmental policy that affects healthcare in national, state, and local arenas is |
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| The aim of policymaking is to change the decision of organizations regarding their use of which of the following? |
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| All of the following are components in the design of an effective policy except: |
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| Which of the following stakeholders might be included in policy development regarding the problem of teen suicide? |
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media
health professionals
consumers
all are correct |
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| Organized groups whose interests are affected by current policies are termed |
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| Policies require approved amounts of funds to be available over a period of 1 year to put the policy into effect. These funds are included in which component of the policymaking process? |
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| All of the following are examples of focused policies proposed by nurses concerned with child welfare except |
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| How can community health nurses take best advantage of social media networks as tools for policy advocacy |
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| Focus on linking public health and community groups, nationally and locally |
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| Since the 1980s, child poverty has increased for which one of the following reasons? |
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| Cutbacks to resources available to poor families |
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| What is the central strategic activity to influence policies? |
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| The U.S. community health nurse who thinks that all clients should speak English is displaying |
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| The most appropriate initial response to a client's comment that he or she recently saw a curandero (folk healer) would be: |
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| discouraging the client from returning to the curandero |
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| Mrs. Warren, a client at poverty level, has been reluctant in obtaining immunizations for her preschool children. Which of the following approaches is most appropriate for the community health nurse to use first in encouraging this client to obtain this service? |
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| Investigate feelings and attitudes toward practice of immunization |
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| The creative use for transcultural nursing concepts, principles, research, knowledge, and practices that focus on large, overall designated communities for the purpose of providing culturally competent nursing care is referred to as: |
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| community bases trans cultural nursing |
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| All of the following fundamentals describe the characteristics associated with transcultural nursing except: |
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| cultures tend to be unstable |
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| You are a community nurse visiting a client from Venezuela who lives in rural Montana. The client is a diabetic and is hypertensive. She does not speak English, and she lives alone. What would be your first and most important goal? |
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| Enter the patients world and assist in a therapeutic and beneficial way |
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| Powerful directive forces that give order and meaning to why people think, act, and make decisions is referred to as |
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| As a community health nurse, you feel that your own Southern cultural background is preferable to those of your lower class Haitian clients. You are exhibiting which of the following? |
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| Which of the following terms was coined by Dr. Madeline Leininger as nursing care within and across cultural context? |
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| What is the Sunrise Model? |
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| A guide to visualize dimensions of Leininger's theory |
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| A guide to visualize dimensions of Leininger's theor |
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| To help nurses discover and apply culture care findings in community-based practices |
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| What is a cultural barrier? |
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| An obstacle that prevents cooperation between cultures |
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| you are required by state law to report a 45-year-old woman's positive gonorrhea culture. She begs you just to treat her and not tell anyone. By officially reporting the test results you have violated which of the following |
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| One of the most important ethical dilemmas in community health nursing today is |
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| the distribution and rationing of healthcare services |
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| Which one of the following rules specifies that the nurse act to bring about the greatest balance of good over evil or benefit over harm |
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| It is presumed that policymakers will use which of the following approaches in developing public policy and appropriating monies? |
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| Informed consent requires that the client be |
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| Which of the following terms refers to the study of how we should behave or how we determine the correct thing to do |
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| Most decisions are based on three major ethical approaches. All of the following are ethical approaches except: |
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| Which of the following best describes the role of the nurse in speaking in support of the interests of a vulnerable client population? |
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| In which of the following situations would paternalism be justified? |
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| When it prevents life-threatening physical harm |
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| Advance directives are based on the principle of: |
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| Withholding information from clients about their conditions constitutes a violation of: |
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| Which statement made by the client most represents health promotion? |
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| I walk at least 4 miles every day before breakfast, which is essential to help me maintain balance in my life |
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| The medicine wheel as a model for health promotion is based on which conception of health? |
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| Which of the following is defined as "a state of being"? |
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| A person achieves wellness through |
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| Primary prevention in health promotion for the elderly includes all of the following except: |
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| completing a health appraisal for hypertension |
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| National goals for health promotion and disease prevention are described in |
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| Which of the following are nursing interventions useful for health promotion |
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| Nutrition, rest, stress management |
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| Disease prevention differs from health promotion because |
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| it targets aggregates who are at risk for a particular disease. |
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| Most of the preventable causes of death are: |
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| related to lifestyle behaviors |
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| What is the concept that has wellness as its target? |
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| What triggers the demand for more information on food labels? |
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| An increasing desire by consumers to be responsible for their own health |
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