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,A 12-year-old boy is 1. Limiting fluid intake after dinner
experiencing nocturnal Limiting fluid intake after dinner reduces the amount of urine
enuresis. Which strategies production while asleep.
should the nurse explore with 2. Voiding immediately before going to bed
the boy and his parents? Select Voiding empties the bladder and makes room for urine
all that apply. produced during the night.
1. Limiting fluid intake after 3. Eliminating caffeinated beverages from the diet
dinner Caffeine irritates the mucous membranes of the urinary system
2. Voiding immediately before and stimulates the need to void.
going to bed 4. Thinking about waking up dry when going to bed at night
3. Eliminating caffeinated Positive imagery supports self-esteem and may become a self-
beverages from the diet fulfilling prophesy.
4. Thinking about waking up dry
when going to bed at night
5. Having the boy change his
own bed linens when he wets
the bed
Serves as an ethical framework for a nurses practice.
Provides a nurse with direction in respect to their ethical
ANA Professional Nursing relationships, nursing responsibilities, appropriate behaviors
Code of Ethics and in making day to day choices in their practice.
The code is grounded in the principles of: Advocacy
Responsibility Accountability Confidentiality
,An anxious patient repeatedly Correct Answer: 3. This is an example of assault. Assault is a
uses the call bell to get the verbal attack or unlawful threat causing a fear of harm. No
nurse to come to the room. actual contact is necessary for a threat to be an assault.
Finally the nurse says to the
patient, "If you keep ringing, 1. This is not an example of slander, which is a false spoken
there will come a time I won't statement resulting in damage to a person's character or
answer your bell." What legal reputation.
term is related to this 2. This is not an example of battery, which is the unlawful
statement? touching of a person's body without consent.
4. This is not an example of libel, which is a false printed
1. Slander statement resulting in damage to a person's character or
2. Battery reputation.
3. Assault
4. Libel
At which time does a nurse 4. Before doing a dressing change that has been painful in the
medicate a patient for pain for it past
to be considered preemptive The word preemptive means preventive, anticipatory, and
analgesia? defensive. Therefore, preemptive analgesia is administered
1. Before a patient goes to before an activity or intervention that may precipitate pain in an
sleep attempt to limit the anticipated pain.
2. At equally distant times
around the clock
3. As soon as a patient reports
the occurrence of pain
4. Before doing a dressing
change that has been painful in
the past
, the right to make one's own decisions, even when those
autonomy
decisions might not be in the person's own best interest.
Benefience actions that promotes good for others, without any self-interest.
Correct Answer: 2. A client living in a protected environment
The client who requires a co-
such as a home for developmen- tally disabled adults may not
signature for a valid consent for
have the mental capacity to make medical decisions and
surgery is a:
requires the signature of a court-appointed legal
representative. This person could be a parent, sibling, relative,
1. 15-year-old mother whose
or unrelated individual.
infant requires exploratory
surgery
1. A mother may legally make medical deci- sions for her
2. 40-year-old resident in a
children even if the mother is younger than 18 years of age.
home for developmentally
3. Older adults can make decisions for them- selves as long as
disabled adults
they understand the risks and benefits of the surgery and are
3. 90-year-old adult who wants
not receiving medication that may interfere with cognitive
more information about the
ability.
risks of surgery
4. The insertion of a chest tube to inflate a lung is an emergency
4. 50-year-old unconscious
intervention to facilitate respiration and oxygenation. This
trauma victim who needs
emergency procedure is implemented to sustain life and does
insertion of a chest tube
not require a signed consent if the client is incapacitated.