A nurse is implementing an intervention at both the primary and ...

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A nurse is implementing an intervention at both the primary and tertiary levels of prevention. Which of the following best describes the nursing intervention?
 
  a. Providing emergency shelter housing
  b. Offering physical and mental health ser-vices
  c. Developing a targeted case management program
  d. Establishing a needle exchange program

Question 2

A nurse is planning to assist homeless clients at a local shelter with finding community resources to meet their health care needs. Which of the following actions should the nurse take before in-teracting with this population?
 
  a. Change personal views about homeless-ness
  b. Understand the concepts of homelessness
  c. Receive special training about where to locate homeless people
  d. Have experience in mental health nursing and counseling

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Establishing a needle exchange program could be considered both primary (preventing a problem before it occurs by helping clients avoid disease transmission) and tertiary (working with a popu-lation who already has a problem of drug abuse). Providing emergency shelter housing and of-fering physical and mental health services are both secondary and tertiary prevention interven-tions. Developing a targeted case management program is secondary prevention.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
To implement effective nursing interventions for homeless clients, nurses need to be aware of their own beliefs and values about the homeless as well as understand the concepts of homeless-ness.