Entries by Daphne Hanson

Inter-professional health care team

Reflection Topic: facility’s inter-professional health care team. What values, belief systems, and personal experiences do you have and how do they affect your relationship and interactions with the facility’s inter-professional health team.   Instruction:   Read and reflect on the topic Come up with a paragraph HINT: Show the progress of an intern student-nurse who […]

Standard treatments for diabetes

We all know about the standard treatments for diabetes, but in your practice, you may have a patient come to you asking about the best way to treat their disease naturally. Are there any natural products that could treat diabetes, and would you be able to use only natural products?  How would you explain this […]

Breast cancer genes

Which personal factor does NOT indicate the possibility of a person having breast cancer genes of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation? The person’s brother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The person is of Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. The person’s 78-year-old grandmother was just diagnosed with breast cancer. The patient’s father died of pancreatic cancer at age 44.

Unit’s visiting hours policies.

The nurse manager has heard there have been some conflicts with the unit’s visiting hours policies. In order to address the concerns about visiting hours, which of the following is the most important action by the nurse manager? . Leave the visiting hours unchanged. . Complete a survey of the visitors. . Change the visiting […]

The National Committee for Quality Assurance

Utilize the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) website to examine the criteria that a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) must meet to be credentialed. What is the value of the Patient Centered Medical Home to patient outcomes? How does the National Committee for Quality Assurance  website help you define and measure the results of […]

Characteristic of benign tumors

A characteristic of benign tumors is that they: A) perform fewer differentiated functions  B )grow by hypertrophy rather than hyperplasia C) retain a euploid number of chromosomes D) grow by expansion rather than invasion