Author Question: A new baccalaureate graduate employed by the local health department is told by the director to ... (Read 44 times)

V@ndy87 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A new baccalaureate graduate employed by the local health department is told by the director to engage in health planning. The nurse should know that her assignment to engage in health planning

A. Means to continuously collect and analyze data.
B. Is a nice way of saying stay at home and get ready for your new experiences.
C. Means planning for health care for the individuals served by the department.
D. Is the community health way of saying use the nursing process exactly as in acute care.

Question 2

. At the request of the desperate family, the nurse returned for a follow-up visit a month after discharging the patient from care.

He had been doing quite well, but at this visit the home care nurse noticed that the client was extremely confused and disoriented. What should the nurse be sure to discuss with the family before the nurse called one of the client's physicians?

A. All the prescription and over-the-counter drugs the patient was taking
B. Other noted problems besides the confusion and disorientation
C. What the man had been eating during the past week
D. What the lab values had been when his blood was last drawn