When Providing Care to Patients, Nurses Understand That Evidence-Based Practice

question 6

Multiple Choice

When providing care to patients, nurses understand that evidence-based practice supports the concept that

• A)to avoid atelectasis and pneumonia, use of an incentive spirometer has an outcome equal to coughing for a patient following surgery.
• B)to avoid atelectasis and pneumonia, use of an incentive spirometer has a better outcome than coughing for a patient following surgery.
• C)to avoid atelectasis and pneumonia, use of an incentive spirometer has a worse outcome than coughing for a patient following surgery.
• D)neither coughing nor use of an incentive spirometer will avoid atelectasis or pneumonia in postoperative patients.

Understand the scientific basis and controversies surrounding complementary and alternative medicine.

Awareness of the mental, emotional, and spiritual components in healing.

Understand the concept of energy balance and its significance in health.

Identify key legislation and organizations that impact health care.

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Definitions:

Cross-Price Elasticity

A measure of how the quantity demanded of one good responds to a price change in another good.

Electricity

A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles such as electrons or protons, used as a power source.

Natural Gas

A fossil fuel formed from plants and animals buried under the Earth's surface and exposed to extreme heat and pressure over millions of years.

Cross-Price Elasticity

A measure of how the quantity demanded of one good changes in response to a change in the price of another good.