A nurse is writing a care plan for a newly admitted patient. ...

[mcmcdaniel]

A nurse is writing a care plan for a newly admitted patient. Which outcome statement did the nurse correctly write?
 
  a. The patient will eat 80 of all meals.
  b. The nursing assistant will set up the pa-tient for a bath every day.
  c. The nursing assistant will ambulate the patient three times a day by May 30.
  d. The patient will identify the need to in-crease dietary intake of fiber by July 4.

Question 2

A nurse notices that a particular area of the community had food poisoning.
 
  The nurse collected data from the people who were affected, identified a local restaurant that served all the people, and determined it was the chicken dish that caused the poisoning. Which community health nurse competency did the nurse demonstrate? a. Public health
  b. Educator
  c. Epidemiologist
  d. Case manager

[lin77x]

Answer to Question 1

D
The patient will identify the need to increase dietary intake of fiber by July 4 is measurable, reli-able, valid, and focuses on the patient. Expected outcomes are measurable criteria to evaluate goal achievement. These measurable effects relate to a change in a patient's physical condition or behavior that results from individualized nursing interventions. Outcomes should be measurable, reliable, valid, suited to the patient, and sensitive to change. Eat 80 of meals has no time frame. The nursing assistant is not the focus the patient is. Also, the nursing assistant will ambulate the patient or set the patient for a bath are interventions, not outcomes.

Answer to Question 2

C
As epidemiologist, community health nurses use basic principles of epidemiology such as tracking health problems; collecting and analyzing data to identify disease trends, outbreaks of illnesses, and disease incidence rates; and planning strategies to prevent or contain outbreaks. With the goal of helping patients assume responsibility for their own health care, the role of educator is important in a community-based setting. Case management means making an appropriate plan of care based on assessment of patients and families and coordinating needed resources and services for the patient's well-being across a continuum of care. A community health nurse is not the same thing as a public health nurse and is not a competency of community health nursing.

[mcmcdaniel]

Both answers were spot on, thank you once again

[lin77x]

Great! Please up vote