Which best describes what Lillian Wald suggested i

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Which best describes what Lillian Wald suggested in regards to providing care to individuals and families?

A. Public health nurses should encourage clients to join the Henry Street settlement for mutual growth and support among the families. B. Public health nurses should focus on providing care in the client's home. C. Public health nurses should recognize the larger social and economic forces that the family cannot control. D. Public health nurses should try to understand that educating clients on how to stay healthy is the nurse's primary responsibility.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Wald emphasized that one could not understand an individual without understanding the family, and the family is in the grip of larger social and economic forces that they cannot control.

Question 2 of 5

A nurse is caring for an aggregate as his or her client. Which task would the nurse complete first?

A. Determine the setting of the aggregate. B. Gain access into the aggregate. C. Identify the nurse's own strengths and preferences. D. Review the resources available to use in the community.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: A nurse should consider personal interests and strengths in selecting an aggregate for intervention.

Question 3 of 5

A community health nurse has determined that the number one priority is to help families in which one member has diabetes. Which action would be most appropriate to maximize services to persons with diabetes?

A. Ask friends with diabetes about what services they want improved. B. Duplicate the diabetic organization's services, because not all patients with diabetes have yet received services. C. Meet with the diabetic organization to see how the public health department can augment what it is offering. D. Submit a request for funding so that the public health department can also offer services to patients with diabetes.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: The nurse should augment existing resources rather than duplicate services.

Question 4 of 5

A nurse has assessed an aggregate, determined the priority health needs, and decided on what intervention to offer. Which will best determine if the intervention will be successful?

A. Accuracy of the nurse's assessment B. Careful planning and implementation of the intervention C. Determination of the aggregate's perspective of the need for the intervention D. Selection of appropriate evaluation measures both in process and on completion

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Interventions are seldom successful unless the aggregate has input into the determination of need and priority.

Question 5 of 5

A nurse found that several professionals resented time spent interacting with and teaching clients. Which describes the most likely underlying motivation for resisting client involvement?

A. Believing that people could change their lives if they really wanted to do so. B. Empowering others shifts power from the experts to the community. C. It is more efficient to plan appropriate care without listening to client ideas. D. Longtime experience with community members has led to disillusionment.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Empowering citizens shifts power from health providers to the community, which some professionals resist.

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