Explain the importance of health care professionals' being comfortable with clients who are chronically ill

Health professionals must have awareness, knowledge, and understanding of chronic illnesses so that they can understand what clients are going through and can communicate therapeutically with clients. If professionals are not comfortable with chronically ill clients, it will show.

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When is it more appropriate for the physician, rather than another staff member, to make a follow-up call to a patient?

a. The treatment provided was in the emergency room. b. The treatment had complications. c. The complications from a treatment were life threatening. d. The physician never needs to be the one to follow up on patient progress.

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The ____ effect occurs when pressure builds up in one compartment of the brain, due to an expanding hematoma or other space-occupying lesion, and that compartment compresses the other compartments.

A. field B. cingulation C. volume D. mass

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