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A nurse assesses the factors which may place a client at risk for injury from a violent act by considering the role these factors play before, during, and after the violent act. The work of which theorist is being applied?
 
  a. Matrix
  b. Maslow
  c. Haddon
  d. Hammer

Question 2

Which individual would be at the highest risk to be a victim of trauma?
 
  a. A middle-class, Caucasian female
  b. A high-income, African American male
  c. A low-income, Caucasian male
  d. A low-income, African American female


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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Haddon developed the Matrix when examining methods to identify the risk of injury. The Matrix looks at factors related to personal attributes, vector or agent attributes, and environmental attributes before, during, and after an injury or death.

Answer to Question 2

D
Trauma victims are over represented in minority, disenfranchised, and disadvantaged groups.


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