A Patient Diagnosed with Cancer Is Unable to Eat Because

question 11

Multiple Choice

A patient diagnosed with cancer is unable to eat because of painful mouth sores. The nurse realizes that which of the following might be helpful for this patient?

• A) Keeping the patient on nothing-by-mouth status until the sores heal
• B) Beginning natural anorexia
• C) Beginning terminal dehydration
• D) Artificial hydration and nutrition

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A characteristic of a good or service that allows multiple users to use or consume it simultaneously without excluding others.

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A good that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning its consumption by one individual does not reduce its availability to others and people cannot be effectively excluded from using it.

Public Good

A good that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning it can be used simultaneously by more than one person without reducing its availability to others.