NSG 321 V4 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | VERIFIED ANSWERS

The nurse is teaching a childbirth education class to prospective parents and describing possible signs of labor. Class participants should be taught that which sign should be reported to the healthcare provider immediately? The nurse performs a series of heel sticks to obtain glucose levels on a large-for-gestational age (LGA) newborn. Because the glucose was 48 mg/dl on admission and 39 mg/dl one hour later, a venous specimen for laboratory analysis of serum glucose concentration is obtained. What action is most important for the nurse to implement? A client diagnoAsed with a deep vein thrombus (DVT), followed by a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), is receiving heparin via an infusion pump at a rate of 1400 U/hr. The client tells the nurse, “I wish this medicine would hurry up and dissolve this clot in my lung so that I can go home.” What response is best for the nurse to provide? A male translator is working with the nurse who is giving discharge instructions to a non-English speaking client. When the translator restates what he nurse is saying, it appears that he is saying much more than what the nurse said. What action should the nurse take?