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1. The nurse is reviewing a patient's list of nursing diag- It identifies
the medical
noses in the medical record. The most recent nursing diagnosis
instead of the
diagnosis is diarrhea related to intestinal patient's response to
colitis. Why is this an incorrectly stated the diagnosis
diagnosis statement?
Bone marrow
2. Nurses in the presurgical unit are preparing depression
patients with different medical conditions -Immunological
for surgical proce- disorder,
dures. The nurse knows to expect which type of med- the nurse will
expect an
ical condition to cause an increased risk of increased risk of
infection and delayed wound healing after infection and delayed
surgery? wound heal- ing after
surgery.
3. The nurse is given a form with preset standard Charting by exception
find- ings for recording a progress note. The -uses forms that have
nurse reports the findings in the following way: pre- defined normal
"Physical Exam: All systems within normal findings, the nurse only
except left lower extremity,
documents
casted d/t to heel fracture. Review of Systems: All nor- findings that
are not stan-
mal except pain in the left foot." What kind of
docu- mentation and informatics is this? 5. The
caregiver of
a patient
4. The nurse is interviewing a patient with with
cognitive impairment. Which strategy should terminal
the nurse avoid while communicating with illness is re-
this patient? ceiving
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respite care. Which type of primary and pre- dard. Unless
ventive care services offers this kind of documented, all other
care? findings are as-
sumed to be normal
Using detailed
explana- tions while
asking ques- tions to
help the patient
understand
Block and parish
nursing
-a preventative and pri-
mary care service that
pro- vides services in
respite care,
homemaker aides,
spiritual health, help with
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errands, and transporta-
tion
-respite care
provides short term
relief or time ott for
people providing
home care to an ill,
dis- ables, or frail older
adult
6. A patient is diagnosed with metabolic acidosis. Which Ketoacidosis -
may have
physiological conditions can be identified as increased metabolic acid
causes for the patient's condition? Oliguric renal
disease - may not be
able to excrete al the
acid from the body
7. A patient visited the primary health care provider com-
Administering ordered
plaining of pain and tenderness in the joints of fingers analgesics
of the left hand. The primary health care -arthritic joint pain is
provider observed rheumatoid nodules. Which caused by
nursing inter- ventions are beneficial? inflammation
(chronic)
-analgesics relieve pain
8. A surgeon obtains patient consent for an
appendec- tomy. While operating, the surgeon Battery
also removes the patient's gallbladder. This Torts are intentional or
mistake could be classified as which type of
un- intentional mistakes
tort?
that are infringements
of civil law
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surgeon did not get con- sent to remove bladder
9. The nurse is attending to an elderly patient scheduled
Hemorrhage
for a hernia operation. The nurse understands Increased systolic blood
that due to aging, the patient may have pressure
rigidity of the
blood vessel walls and a reduction in sympathetic and Increased
diastolic blood