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a. Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care
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b. Ensures that all the clients basic needs are met
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d. Thoroughly orients the client and family to the room qy qy qy qy qy qy qy qy




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centered care| culture MSC: Integrated Process: Caring NOT: Client N
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eeds Category: Psychosocial Integrity
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2. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The clients blood pressure was 142/7
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6 mm Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What action by the nurse is best?
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a. Call the Rapid Response Team.
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d. Repeat blood pressure measurement in 15 minutes.
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ng before they suffer either respiratory or cardiac arrest. Since the client has manifested a significant cha
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nge, the nurse s hould call the RRT. Changes in blood pressure, mental status, heart rate, and pain are
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particularly significant. Documentation is vital, but the nurse must do more than document. The primary
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care provider should be no tified, but this is not the priority over calling the RRT. The clients blood pres
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sure should be reassessed freq uently, but the priority is getting the rapid care to the client.
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DIF: Applying/Application REF: 3
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S C: Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation
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3. A nurse is orienting a new client and family to the inpatient unit. What information does the nurse provide
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to h elp the client promote his or her own safety?
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a. Encourage the client and family to be active partners.
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b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.
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c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.
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d. Tell the client to always wear his or her armband.
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Each action could be important for the client or family to perform. However, encouraging th
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e client to be active in his or her health care as a partner is the most critical. The other actions are ver
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