When providing care to patients at risk for ARDS, nurses use ...

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When providing care to patients at risk for ARDS, nurses use evidence-based practice whenever they:
 
  a. Suction a patient at high risk for developing ARDS every 2 hours.
  b. Suction a patient at high risk for developing ARDS whenever crackles are aus-cultated.
  c. Turn a patient at risk for developing ARDS every 2 hours.
  d. Turn a patient at risk for developing ARDS every 5 minutes.

Question 2

When engaging in population-based health care, a goal of the nurse would be to do which of the following?
 
  a. Maintain access to health care services c. Reduce health care disparities
  b. Maintain quality of health care services d. Increase health care delivery costs

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Answer to Question 1

D

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A There is no evidence to support this as a measure to reduce the risk for patients to develop ARDS.
B There is no evidence to support this as a measure to reduce the risk for patients to develop ARDS.
C There is no evidence to support this as a measure to reduce the risk for patients to develop ARDS.
D Research has shown that turning patients at risk for developing ARDS every 5 minutes reduces that risk. There are hospital beds now designed to provide that care.

Answer to Question 2

C
The goals of population-based health care include reduction of health disparities among different
population groups, improvement of access to health care services, improvement of quality of health
care services, and reduction of health care delivery costs.