The nurse practitioner is working with a staff nurse to change ...

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The nurse practitioner is working with a staff nurse to change the plan of care for a client with a terminal illness. In which areas of nursing practice are these nurses functioning?
 
  1. Promoting health and wellness
  2. Preventing illness
  3. Restoring health
  4. Caring for the dying

Question 2

The community health nurse is caring for teenage mothers and their children. For what should the nurse assess these patients when determining their degree of vulnerability?
 
  1. Distance separation from their nuclear families
  2. Increased levels of poverty
  3. Raising children without the support of family
  4. The normal difficulties of adolescence

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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Promoting health and wellness may involve individual and community activities to enhance healthy lifestyles, such as improving nutrition and physical fitness, preventing drug and alcohol misuse, restricting smoking, and preventing accidents and injury in the home and workplace.
Rationale 2: The goal of illness prevention programs is to maintain optimal health by preventing disease.
Rationale 3: Restoring health focuses on the ill client, and it extends from early detection of disease through helping the client during the recovery period.
Rationale 4: Caring for the dying involves comforting and caring for people of all ages who are dying. It includes helping clients be as comfortable as possible until death and helping support persons cope with death.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Teenage mothers have the normal needs of teenagers as well as those of new mothers, with motherhood compounding the difficulties of adolescence. Although many teenage mothers are raising children alone, without the support of the baby's father or perhaps their own families, and many live in poverty, all are vulnerable because of their age.