Entries by Daphne Hanson

Intimate Partner Violence

Discuss mandated reporting involving intimate partner violence. What are you required to report and what must you keep confidential with an adult client? Discuss any past nursing experience you have had with a client involved in intimate partner violence as either the victim or perpetrator. As a PMHNP, how would you approach therapy with a […]

Pastoral nomadism

Pastoral nomadism is BEST defined as a form of extensive subsistence farming in which plots of land are cleared and used for several years and then abandoned for a long period of time as farmers move on to farm other areas of land a form of subsistence agriculture that involves the breeding and herding of […]

Columbian Exchange.

Many plants and animals were successfully cultivated and diffused into new regions of the world during the Columbian Exchange. Which of the following statements BEST explains how this occurred? The plants and animals diffused a relatively short distance from their point of origin. The plants and animals diffused to regions with variation in the climates […]

Hunter-gatherer societies?

Which of the following accurately describes hunter-gatherer societies? All humans continued to obtain food this way, even after the invention of agriculture. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1900s, this form of nomadism disappeared. As a result of modernization of agriculture and industrialization, this form of subsistence farming disappeared in the mid-1900s. […]

The Importance of Assessing Functional Status

Describe the importance of assessing functional status in your patient population. What screening tool does your facility use? Conduct the Katz ADL on an older adult and compare and contrast it with the current tool used in your clinical setting. Describe your results and based on the findings, what clinical interventions would be required to […]

Glacial landscape

Write in the name of the glacial landscape feature found at the location you were given and identify whether it is an erosional, depositional or glaciofluvial feature. The feature found at this location is a ____ and it is a ____ feature.