1.      A child with asthma would most likely present with which of the following symptoms?    

1.      The nurse is assisting the parents of a hospitalized toddler to select meal options for the child while in the hospital. The nurse should suggest which meal option?

1.    The nurse is counseling a prenatal patient on nutrition. He notes that her physician has ordered 300 mg of ferrous sulfate each day. What patient teaching is indicated?

1.      A nurse is caring for a 6-week old infant admitted to the pediatric unit for evaluation of a suspected pyloric stenosis. Which of the following should the nurse expect?     

1.      A nurse is caring for a child diagnosed with impetigo. What is a nursing intervention that can help prevent the spread of infection?

In most of the world, a single governmental agency (typically a Ministry of Health) manages health care, public health, and the regulatory environment that supports both.  In the United States individual states have constitutional authority for public health, and health care is managed through a complex system of public and private providers financed through public and private insurance.  The United States Congress is considering shifting to a federal Ministry of Health model, as part of the administration’s Make America Healthy Again campaign, that would include shifting the management of all health insurance to the government.    They have asked you, as a public health expert: first to assess whether such a shift from private to public management of health insurance would improve public health and to explain why or why not.  Second, they would like you to recommend whether this should be designed as a Medicare for All program, or a Medicaid for All program?  Please provide at least two reasons in support of your recommendation.

According to Donald Berwick, the next evolution in assessing risk factors for public health problems should focus on

Is poverty a cause of poor health in communities or is poor health a cause of poverty?  How would different answers to this question influence public policy and the allocation of resources toward the goal of improving health?  Please provide two examples of public policy, each one driven by each of these two assumptions.

In the United States, the authority that allows states to exercise what is known as police power was affirmed in a decision by the US Supreme Court in what important historical case?

Match the following definitions with the appropriate ethical principle: