Answer to Question 1
A
Interpretation involves being orderly in data collection, looking for patterns to categorize data, and clarifying uncertain data. This nurse is clarifying the data in this situation. Evaluation involves determining the effectiveness of interventions. The nurse in this scenario is assessing the patient, not evaluating interventions. Self-regulation is reflecting on experiences. Explanation is supporting findings and conclusions. The nurse in this question is clarifying uncertain data (determining cause of the low pulse), not supporting the finding of a low pulse.
Answer to Question 2
C
Nurses can influence policy decisions at all governmental levels. One way is to get involved in ANA's national efforts, such as Nursing's Agenda for the Future: A Call to the Nation. This effort is critical in exerting nurses' influence early in the political process. Nurses need to become serious students of social needs, activists in influencing policy to meet those needs, and generous contributors of time and money to nursing organizations and candidates to help legislate conditions that are likely to produce the best care possible.
Pulmonary function test: spirometry. (a) Normal respiratory volumes, as measured during spirometry.
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