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1 Pharmacology Midterm 1. A nurse is caring for a 4-year-old child who is resistant to taking medication. Which of the following strategies should the nurse use to elicit the child’s cooperation? a. Offer the child a choice of taking the medication with juice or water b. Tell the child it is candy c. Hide the medications in a large dish of ice cream d. Tell the child he will have a shot instead 2. A nurse is caring for a client who has difficulty swallowing medications and is prescribed enteri...

Nursing III Final Chapters Chapter 35 For the client who is at risk for stroke, the most important guideline the nurse should teach is to: monitor blood pressure The family of a client diagnose d with a stroke asks the nurse if this health problem is very common. The nurse should respond that in the United States a person has a stroke every: 40 seconds A client is being evaluated for a stroke. The nurse knows that one of the easiest and most common diagnostic tests used to differentiate between ...

N3: Final Exam Study Guide 1. CAM (Complementary & Alternative Medicine) a. What is Complementary? i. “In addition to…” modern medicine b. What is Alternative? i. “Instead of…” modern medi cine c. Define “Chi” i. Chinese life force that provides warmth and protection from illness and injury. d. Reiki i. Use of hands to correct energy fields/chakras. Energy flows from universe into patient. Can help increase WBC and RBC production. Realignment of energy flow. e. Ayurveda i. Indian...

Final Exam Content Guide 1. Stroke – CVA – Brain attack disruption of cerebral blood flow secondary to ischemia, hemorrhage, brain attack, or embolism 1) Hemorrhagic – ruptured artery or aneur y sm = ischemia and ↑ICP caused by expanding collection of blood. Prognosis poor. 2) Thrombotic – d/t development of blood clot on an atherosclerotic plaque in a cerebral artery. The clot gradually shuts off the artery causing ischemia distal to the occlusion. Symptoms evolve over several hours t...

Chapter 10: Concepts of Emergency and Disaster Preparedness MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A hospital responds to a local mass casualty event. Which action should the nurse supervisor take to prevent staff pos t- traumatic stress disorder during a mass casualty event? a. Provide water and healthy snacks for energy throughout the event. b. Schedule 16-hour shifts to allow for greater rest between shifts. c. Encourage counseling upon deactivation of the emergency response plan. d. Assign staff to different ro...

NR 2224 Exam 1 Questions And Answers 1. Which is the five-step process that professional nurses use when caring for clients? The nursing process 2. The nurse palpates a client’s radial pulse as 52 b eats per minute. The client spear alert and oriented and in no distress. Which action by the nurse best demonstrates effective use of the nursing process? Use the stethoscope to listen for the radial pulse

N3 - Exam 3 Questions And Answers 1. A client is learning about cholesterol. The nurse explains that the good cholesterol transports plasma cholesterol away from plaques and to the liver for met aboli sm. This type of cholesterol is called: 1. high-density lipoprotein. 2. low-density lipoprotein. 3. very-high-density lipoprotein. 4. very-low-density lipoprotein. 2. A client has a blood pressure of 132/82 mmHg and a triglyceride level of 160 mg/dL. Based on these results, the nurse knows that the...

Cardiac Normal cardiac output- Normal cardiac output is 60-100 beats per minute. If below 60 is brady cardia and the patient is at risk for poor perfusion. Cardiac output is defined as the amount of b lood pumped from the left ventricle each minute. Remember that arrhythmia is a deviation from a normal rhythm and a dysrhythmia is a disturbance in the normal rhythm. Medications for: contractility, maintaining normal blood pressure, various tachycardias, bradycardias, different degrees of AV block...

2018 HESI EXIT V3 1. A 64 year-old client scheduled for surgery with a general anesthetic refuses to remove a set of dentures prior to leaving the unit for the operating room. What would be the most a ppropriate intervention by the nurse? A) Explain to the client that the dentures must come out as they may get lost or broken in the operating room B) Ask the client if there are second thoughts about having the procedure C) Notify the anesthesia department and the surgeon of the client's refusal ...

PREVENTION/HEALTH PROMOTION/IMMUNIZATION LEVEL OF PREVENTION  PRIMARY o Goal: preventing the health problem, the most cost-effective form of healthcare o Example: immunizations, counseling abo ut s afety, injury and disease prevention  SECONDARY o Goal: detecting disease in early, asymptomatic, or preclinical state to minimize its impact o Example: screening tests, such as BP check, mammography, colonoscopy, ASA in hx MI  TERTIARY o Goal: minimizing negative disease induced outcomes o E...