The nurse is admitting a 40-year-old female patient newly emigrated from Mexico. The patient has hypertension.
As this is the initial visit to the clinic, the best approach to assess what, if any, folk medicine the patient may have used is for the nurse to ask:
A.
What have you been doing to treat your symptoms?
B.
Have you been using any remedies that come from Mexico?
C.
Would you like to keep wearing that garlic necklace while you are in the hospital?
D.
Have you been using herbs to treat your illness?
Question 2
An individual's feelings of environmental control will affect beliefs about compliance with a medical regimen. Which of the following is most likely to be true?
A.
A person with internal locus of control will be more likely to feel personal actions that can influence future health.
B.
A person with external locus of control will be more likely to feel personal actions that can influence future health.
C.
A person who believes in fate and change as an important determinant of nature has an internal locus of control.
D.
A belief that the natural course of nature cannot be affected by individuals indicates belief in internal locus of control.
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