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The nurse is caring for a patient diagnosed with essential hypertension. The health care provider prescribes blood pressure medication that the nurse administers.
 
  The nurse then monitors the patient's blood pressure for several days to help determine effectiveness. Which system component is the nurse evaluating?
  a. Input
  b. Output
  c. Content
  d. Feedback

Question 2

The nurse views the patient as an open system that needs help in coping with stressors. Which theorist is the nurse using?
 
  a. King
  b. Levine
  c. Neuman
  d. Johnson


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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Output is the end product of a system and, in the case of the nursing process, it is defined as whether the patient's health status improves or remains stable as a result of nursing care. Input consists of the data that come from a patient's assessment. Feedback serves to inform a system about how it functions. Content is the product and information obtained from the system.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Neuman views a patient as being an open system that is in constant energy exchange with the environment that the nurse must help cope with stressors. King views a patient as a unique personal system that is constantly interacting/transacting with other systems that the nurse helps with goal attainment. Levine believes nurses promote balance between nursing interventions and patient participation to assist in conserving energy needed for healing. Johnson perceives patients as a collection of subsystems that forms an overall behavioral system focusing on balance.


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