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kaid0807

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A nurse is teaching patients about health care information. Which patient will the nurse assess closely for health literacy?
 
  a. A patient 35 years old
  b. A patient 68 years old
  c. A patient with a college degree
  d. A patient with a high-school diploma

Question 2

A nurse is assessing a patient's ethnohistory. Which question should the nurse ask?
 
  a. What language do you speak at home?
  b. How different is your life here from back home?
  c. Which caregivers do you seek when you are sick?
  d. How different is what we do from what your family does when you are sick?


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cswans24

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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
About 9 out of 10 people in the United States experience challenges in using health care information. Patients who are especially vulnerable are the elderly (age 65+), immigrants, persons with low incomes, persons who do not have a high-school diploma or GED, and persons with chronic mental and/or physical health conditions. A 35-year-old patient and patients with high-school and college education are not identified in the vulnerable populations.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
An ethnohistory question is the following: How different is your life here from back home? Caring beliefs and practice questions include the following: Which caregivers do you seek when you are sick and How different is what we do from what your family does when you are sick? The language and communication is the following: What language do you speak at home?


kaid0807

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Reply #2 on: Jul 22, 2018
Thank you!


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Reply #3 on: Jul 22, 2018
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