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torybrooks · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

The nurse is reading an article that explains nursing as being a healing art. Which statement explains how nursing is a healing art?

A) Compassion and support are as important as caregiving.
B) Each individual nurse approaches it in a unique, creative style.
C) Nurses must paint the canvas of their own well-being before they can help others.
D) The challenges that nurses encounter are too unpredictable to be studied scientifically.

Question 2

Early diagnosis of diabetes in the elderly is often difficult because the classic symptoms of diabetes may be absent. What is the most reliable indicator of diabetes in the elderly?

A) High blood glucose level
B) Glaucoma
C) High urinary glucose level
D) Kidney failure

efwsefaw · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
Feedback:
The nursing profession emerged as a healing art characterized by its practitioners offering comfort, compassion, and caring that were equally (and perhaps sometimes more) important to patients' healing as the procedural tasks of caregiving. Nursing as a healing art does not mean that each nurse does not practice creatively nor does it mean that nurses paint their own canvas before helping someone else. Nursing as healing art also does not mean that challenges cannot be studied scientifically.

Answer to Question 2

A
Feedback:
A high blood glucose level, as shown by a glucose tolerance test, is the most reliable indicator. Although glycosuria is evident in younger diabetic patients, it may not occur in the elderly, even when they have hyperglycemia. Glaucoma and kidney failure may result from diabetes eventually, but they can also have other causes.