The Patient Has Been Recently Diagnosed with Hypertension

question 15

Multiple Choice

The patient has been recently diagnosed with hypertension.Assessment data includes Wt: 200 pounds
Ht: 5' 4"
Diet: Mostly starches
Alcohol intake: 3 beers/week
Stressors: Works 60 hours/week
In planning care with this patient,what is the priority outcome?

• A)Patient will eliminate alcohol from the diet.
• B)Patient will decrease stress by limiting work to 40 hours/week.
• C)Patient will balance diet according to the food pyramid.
• D)Patient will achieve and maintain optimum weight.

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Definitions:

Price Elasticity of Demand

The response level of the demand for a product to variations in its price, determined by dividing the percentage change in the demanded quantity by the percentage change in the price.

Quantity Demanded

The total amount of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a given price.

Unit Elasticity

Demand or supply for which the elasticity coefficient is equal to 1; means that the percentage change in the quantity demanded or quantity supplied is equal to the percentage change in price.

Inelastic

A description of a product or service's demand when consumers' demand is relatively insensitive to price changes.