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tichca

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A nurse wishes to volunteer in a tertiary health care activity. What activity would the nurse choose?
 
  a. Teaching about safer sexual behaviors
  b. Greeting women at an emergency preg-nancy clinic
  c. Assisting women who are having radiation therapy
  d. Finding home health safety resources

Question 2

An older adult patient with a history of a myocardial infarction tells the nurse that he takes his daily dose of prescribed aspirin with breakfast each morning. The nurse's response is
 
  a. Food interferes with the drug's absorp-tion, so take it between meals.
  b. Taking aspirin with food increases your likelihood of stomach upset.
  c. Taking the drug with food is likely to alter the taste of the food.
  d. Eating as you take the aspirin is likely to result in constipation.



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Answer to Question 1

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Tertiary prevention aims to care for established disease. Helping women having radiation therapy for cancer would fall into this realm. Teaching is primary prevention. The emergency pregnancy clinic is secondary prevention. Home safety is primary prevention.

Answer to Question 2

A
The absorption of aspirin occurs in the stomach and so is greatly altered by the presence of food.
The other statements are incorrect.



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