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wenmo · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

When reviewing the concepts of health, the nurse recalls that the components of holistic health include which of these?

a. Disease originates from the external environment.
b. The individual human is a closed system.
c. Nurses are responsible for a patient's health state.
d. Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent.

Question 2

During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing research studies to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision making into their practice. Which suggestion by the nurse manager would best help these problems?

a. Form a committee to conduct research studies.
b. Post published research studies on the unit's bulletin boards.
c. Encourage the nurses to visit the library to review studies.
d. Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searches for research studies.

dyrone · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Consideration of the whole person is the essence of holistic health, which views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent. The basis of disease originates from both the external environment and from within the person. Both the individual human and the external environment are open systems, continually changing and adapting, and each person is responsible for his or her own personal health state.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Facilitating support for EBP would include teaching the nurses how to conduct electronic searches; time to visit the library may not be available for many nurses. Actually conducting research studies may be helpful in the long-run but not an immediate solution to reviewing existing research.