The Nurse Includes Functional Ability When Assessing a Client

question 11

Multiple Choice

The nurse includes functional ability when assessing a client.What is the nurse's purpose in collecting this information?

• A) Estimates the cost for healthcare
• B) Evaluates the success of interventions
• C) Identifies future rehabilitation and palliative care needs
• D) Reduces the amount of repetition being provided by care providers

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Definitions:

Culture

The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another, transmitted through languages, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next.

Social Rules

Agreed-upon guidelines that dictate the behavior expected of individuals within a society or group.

Conventions

Established norms, rules, or practices that dictate certain behaviors or actions within a society or group.

Difference-equals-deficit

A biased belief that differences in cultural or individual characteristics are inherently inferior.