HESI MED-SURG Practice Questions & Key Terms Questions and complete solutions

HESI MED-SURG Practice Questions & Key Terms Questions and complete solutions A female client with a nasogastric tube attached to low suction states that she is nauseated. The nurse assesses that there has been no drainage through the nasogastric tube in the last 2 hours. Which action should the nurse take first? When assigning clients on a medical-surgical floor to a RN and a LPN, it is best for the charge nurse to assign which client to the LPN? Which description of symptoms is characteristic of a client with diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux)? Which abnormal lab finding indicates that a client with diabetes needs further evaluation for diabetic nephropathy? An older male client comes to the geriatric screening clinic complaining of pain in his left calf. The nurse notices a reddened area on the calf of his right leg that is warm to touch and the nurse suspects that the client may have thrombophlebitis. Which addition assessment is most important for the nurse to perform? The nurse know that a client taking diuretics must be assessed for the development of hypokalemia, and that hypokalemia will create changes in the client's normal ECG tracing. Which ECG change would be an expected finding in the client with hypokalemia