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Maria is a 55-year-old woman who visits her primary care clinic for a routine check-up. The nurse reviews her health history and recommends regular blood pressure screenings and cholesterol tests. Maria also receives counseling on maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Which levels of prevention are represented in the nurse’s interventions? Select all that apply.

A nurse is caring for a patient recovering from surgery who expresses anxiety about returning home, reports poor sleep, and shares concern about not being able to participate in church activities during recovery. The nurse develops a care plan that includes pain management, emotional support, referral to a faith leader, and encouragement of healthy sleep routines.

A 52-year-old Black woman presents to the clinic with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and early signs of heart disease. She reports difficulty affording medications and healthy food, limited access to transportation, and that she often delays care because of work and family responsibilities. Which statement best identifies how health disparities are contributing to this patient’s situation?

18.  A client who is alert and oriented to person, place and time has notified the nurse they want to leave AMA. The nurse uses therapeutic communication in an attempt to change the client’s mind. If the nurse is unsuccessful, what is the nurse’s first priority?

2.  The nurse is caring for a client that has erythema, edema, heat, and pain to the right lower extremity. The nurse knows these are which of the following?

Match the vocabulary term to the definition or example.  

Scenario: A bank analyst queries transaction counts. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM transactions WHERE ISNULL(status, ”) = ”; What should be done to improve portability? OPTIONSA. Replace the vendor-specific SQL (“ISNULL”)B. Add a vendor-specific optimizer hint.C. Delete the WHERE clause.D. Replace empty strings with NULL. ANSWERReplace ISNULL with COALESCE. EXPLANATIONCOALESCE is ANSI-standard and runs across multiple engines, unlike vendor-specific ISNULL.

The nurse is assessing a patient in the hospital who has received numerous antibiotics and notes that his tongue appears to be black and hairy. In response to his concern, what would the nurse say?

A nurse is caring for three patients from different cultural backgrounds: Patient A: The nurse assumes that all cultural groups follow the same dietary restrictions, religious practices, and family involvement in care, and creates identical care plans for each patient without asking about individual preferences. Patient B: The nurse insists that the patient follow Western dietary practices, even though the patient prefers traditional foods from their culture. Patient C: The nurse makes a generalized statement: “All people from your culture believe X,” applying assumptions to the individual. Which patient scenario best illustrates cultural blindness?

Michelle cares for many Jewish patients in her unit. To provide culturally competent care, she attended community events and read about Jewish dietary practices. She asks the hospital cafeteria to provide only kosher meals for all of her Jewish patients. Some patients express that they do not follow kosher dietary rules, and others have no preference. In her efforts to provide culturally competent care, what mistake did Michelle make?