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NURS 239 Exam 3 (100% accurate)
An emergency room nurse is assessing a client who sustained a blunt injury to the chest wall. Which of these signs and symptoms would you not find in this client? correct answers closed or foiled chest The nurse is assessing the client with fractures of the ribs, 4,5, and 6 on the left side. Assessment includes, respiratory 8 and shallow, lungs clear with decreased breath sounds left side, pain level 9/10, PaO2 84, PaCO2 46 and 7.33 pH, and paradoxical chest wall movement noted. The nurse und...
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NURS 239 - Unit 1 (Well-enlightened)
What is Nursing Assessment? correct answers Using all your senses to collect and validate data. How you communicate (verbal/nonverbal) How the nurse identifies client problems and issues An ongoing process What is the Nursing Process? correct answers Assessment Diagnosis Elicious - Expected outcome (goals) Planning Implementation Evaluation What are the components of a health assessment? correct answers Health History (symptoms, subjective data, secondary source of data) Physical...
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NURS 239 Exam 4 (100% correct answers)
Your patient has a hemmorrhagic stroke with frontal lobe damage, what will this affect in the patient? correct answers poor judgement, flat affect Patient has a spinal cord injury due to a MVA and their upper motor neurons are affected, how will the patient present? correct answers spastic Glascow Coma Scale correct answers 3 = lowest 15 = normal Can NEVER be Zero Patient with a right hemi stroke gets caught in their wheel chair, this is due to? correct answers unilateral neglect P...
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NURS 239 Final Exam (With complete solution)
Patient is allergic to penicillin, what other antibiotic could the patient be allergic to as well? correct answers Rocephin What is a side effect of aminoglycosides? correct answers Ototoxicity, check hearing loss What does the nurse do if vanco levels come back too high? correct answers hold the medicine and call the doctor A nurse is caring for a C. Diff patient, what interventions/precautions are correct to take? correct answers -wash hands with soap and water -clean with bleach -D...
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NURS 239 Case Study
What appears to be Mary’s problem(s), from the results of her blood work? What sort of change has occurred in her acid-base balance? If there is more than one problem in her blood work results, is there a relationship among those factors? Questions: Bicarbonate is one of the main buffers in the blood. Provide a definition of a buffer. Give an equation that allows one to calculate the pH of a buffer solution. Provide the specific form of this equation, including each chemical species...
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