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craiczarry

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on: Jul 8, 2018
MC Home health nursing is considered a subspecialty of community health nursing. How do home health and community health nursing differ?
 
  A. Home health nursing is reimbursable, whereas community health nursing is not.
   B. Community health nursing deals only with the health of aggregates.
   C. The focus of community health nursing is health promotion, and the focus of home health nursing is health restoration from a state of illness.
   D. Home health nursing focuses on the individual and community health nursing focuses on systems.

Question 2

MC During a visit to provide diabetic teaching to a newly-diagnosed client, the client constantly answers the cell phone and has conversations with those callers.
 
  The client apologizes after each call. The best intervention that the nurse could do at this time is to:
   A. Request that the client not answer the cell phone.
   B. Leave some pamphlets for the client to read.
   C. Have the client repeat back the information the nurse has given.
   D. Ask the client if another time would be better to complete this teaching.


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

C. The focus of community health nursing is health promotion, and the focus of home health nursing is health restoration from a state of illness.

Answer to Question 2

D. Ask the client if another time would be better to complete this teaching.


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