NURSING 325 Fundamentals Final Review( Complete Solution Rated A)

NURSING 325 Fundamentals Final Review Vital Signs MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A nurse notes a patient has abnormal vital signs. What action by the nurse is best? c. Compare with prior readings. 2. A patie nt returned from a procedure and has vital sign measurements ordered every hour. The patient’s blood pressure has dropped from 132/82 mm Hg an hour ago to 90/66 mm Hg. What action by the nurse is most appropriate? d. Plan to take the vital signs more often. 3. A nurse is told in the hand-off report that a patient is afebrile. What assessment finding correlates with this statement? b. Temperature 98.4° F (36.8° C) 4. A nurse is caring for a patient who has a high temperature. The nurse plans to help the patient regain a normal temperature through conduction. What technique does the nurse use? b. Putting ice packs in the patient’s axillae 5. A nurse is going to take a patient’s oral temperature. The patient has been drinking coffee. What action by the nurse is best? b. Return in 30 minutes to take the patient’s temperature. 6. A nurse observes a student taking an adult patient’s tympanic temperature. What action by the student requires the nurse to intervene? b. Student pulls the pinna of the patient’s ear down and back 7. A nurse assesses a patient’s radial pulse rate to be 110 beats/min and regular. What action by the nurse is best? a. Assess the patient for causes of tachycardia. 8. The student nurse is assessing a patient’s pulses. What action by the student requires the nurse to intervene? b. Assessing the doralis pedis pulse by palpating behind the patient’s knee 9. The nurse assesses a patient’s pulse and finds it hard to obliterate with palpation. What action by Show Less