What Patients Would Be Considered "At Risk" Consumers During a Healthcare

question 19

Multiple Choice

What patients would be considered "at risk" consumers during a healthcare visit?

• A) Clyde requires an anticoagulant. He tells the nurse about his medications. He does not include an herbal supplement.
• B) George is very shy and withdrawn. He asks the nurse to leave him alone.
• C) Sarah is a new parent who finds that nurses on the children's unit are very helpful. She is eager to accept all suggestions, including those that she does not yet understand.
• D) Claude is booked for bowel surgery. His doctor explains about the colostomy. Later, Claude tells his wife that he really doesn't know what the doctor meant by colostomy.

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Definitions:

Taxonomy

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Sociocultural

Pertaining to the influence and interaction of social and cultural factors on individual behavior and societal dynamics.

Biopsychosocial

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Evolutionary

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