You are documenting what type of care a patient is receiving. One of the assigned patients in your caseload as a community health nurse has the most means and is consuming the most care, whereas a second patient with the least means and greatest
health problems is consuming the least care. Using your knowledge, you know that public spending on health services most often benefits the rich more than the poor in high- and low-income countries alike. What type of care is represented for the two assigned patients?
A) Inverse
B) Impoverishing
C) Fragmented and fragmenting
D) Unsafe
Question 2
You are a nurse who is teaching a class of nursing students about health and wellness in society. How would you define to the students what the World Health Organization definition of health is?
A) A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
B) Factors that affect outcomes of health status, such as physical environment, social environment, health behaviors, and individual health, as well as broader factors such as access to health services and overall health policies and interventions
C) Health issues and concerns that transcend national boundaries and may best be addressed by cooperative actions and solutions
D) Descriptors of the general health of a nation that are grouped into four categories: morbidity and mortality, risk factors, health service coverage, and health system resources
Helping maintain accurate patient records is a critical part of the medical assistant's work.
Role-Playing a Situation in Which a Patient Is from Another Culture
Algorithm for assessing a patient at risk for self-directed violence.
Muscle weakness caused by myasthenia gravis is evident in the eyes of this patient.
(a) Chicken pox vesicles. (b) Chicken pox on back of young patient.