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A nurse is providing teaching to a client who has a new prescription for amitriptyline. Which of the following statements by the client indicates an understanding of the teaching? A) I can expect to experience diarrhea while taking this medication B) I may feel drowsy for a few weeks after starting this medication C) I cannot eat my favorite pizza with pepperoni while taking this medication D) this medication will help me lose the weight that I've gained over the last year - Answers-B A ...

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client who has a new diagnosis of genital herpes. What information should the nurse include in the teaching? - Answers-The virus can be transmitted without lesions present A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client who has coronary artery disease and is taking a statin medication to lower cholesterol levels. What instruction should the nurse include in the teaching? - Answers-Add oily fish to your diet A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client ...

- When using the airway, breathing, and circulation approach to client care, the first action the nurse should take is to initiate oxygen. Clients who have manifestations of sepsis are often hypoxic, tachypneic, or have a PaCO2 level of less than 32 mm Hg. The nurse should provide supplemental oxygen to keep the client's oxygen saturation levels at 95% or greater, which will maximize the ability of the hemoglobin to support the oxygen needs of the body. - The nurse should collect a sputum cu...

Teaching a client about how to perform capillary blood glucose testing. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include? - Answers-Use a drop of blood large enough to cover the pad on the reagent strip Explaining how to walk with a cane - Answers-- The client moves the cane forward before taking a step - The client holds the cane on their stronger side - The client moves their weaker leg before moving their stronger leg Propper contact precaution techniques - Answers-Despost...

A nurse is developing a plan of care for a client who has an ileostomy and application of stoma bag care. Based on the nurses understanding, which of the following are appropriate concepts. A) facilitate ring adhesion with pectin flange B) apply aspirin to decrease the odor C) limit the use of skin barriers D) expect firm fecal content - Answers-facilitate ring adhesion with pectin flange A nurse is preparing to exit the room of a client who has a draining wound infected with MRSA and r...

ATI FUNDAMENTALS PROCTOR 64. a nurse in an acute care facility is preparing to transfer a client to a long term care facility. Which of the following information should the nurse include in the hand off report? - Answers-Effectiveness of the last dose of pain medication 65. nurse is teaching a client how to perform breast self-examination. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include? - Answers-Squeeze the ...

A nurse is receiving a provider's prescription by telephone for morphine for a client who is reporting moderate to severe pain. Which of the following nursing actions are appropriate? Select all. A. Repeat the details of the prescription back to the provider B. Have another nurse listen to the telephone prescription C. Obtain the prescriber's signature on the prescription within 24hrs D. Decline the verbal prescription because it is not an emergency situation E. Tell the charge nurse ...

A nurse is providing preoperative teaching for a client who was just informed that she requires emergency surgery. The client has a respiratory rate 30/min and says, "This is difficult to comprehend. I feel shaky and nervous." The nurse should identify that the client is experiencing which of the following levels of anxiety? A. Mild B. Moderate C. Severe D. Panic - Answers-B. Moderate A nurse is caring for a client who is experiencing moderate anxiety. Which of the following actions s...

A nurse observes a client who is lying in a bed experiencing a tonic - clonic seizure. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? 1) Lower the side rails of client's bed. 2) Apply wrist restraints to the client 3) Loosen clothing around the client's neck. 4) Position the client in the semi fowlers position. - Answers-3) Loosen clothing around the client's neck. - The nurse should loosen clothing around the client's neck to maintain an open airway and prevent aspirat...

What part of the uterine lining is involved in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle - Answers-Functional layer, endometrium What pituitary hormones stimulates the process of gametogenesis? - Answers-Follicle stimulating hormone What effect does Aldosterone secretion have on electrolyte levels? - Answers-Sodium levels INCREASE; Aldosterone is secreted when a drop in extracellular sodium occurs. The hormone effect on the kidneys causes to retain sodium and return to blood What's the ...

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A nurse is teaching a client who has a new diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). Which of the following pieces of information should the nurse include in the teaching? (Select all that apply.) A. Lost vision can improve with eye drops. B. Administer eye drops as needed for vision loss. C. Glasses will be necessary to correct the accompanying presbyopia. D. Driving can be dangerous due to the loss of peripheral vision. E. Laser surgery can help reestablish the flow of aqueous hu...

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A critical care nurse is assessing a client who has severe head injury. In response to painful stimuli, the client does not open her eyes, displays decerebrate posturing, and makes incomprehensible sounds. Which of the following Glasgow Coma Scale scores should the nurse assign the client? a. 5 b. 2 c. 13 d. 10 - Answers-a. 5 A nurse is providing discharge teaching to a client who has heart failure and instructs him to limit sodium intake to 2 g per day. Which of the following statements ...

A nurse is planning care for a client who is postoperative and has developed left lower leg deep-vein thrombosis. Which of the following interventions should the nurse include in the plan of care? Initiate complete bed rest. Massage the left lower leg three times a day. Make sure the client's legs are elevated while in bed. Apply cold compresses to the left lower leg every 2 hr. - Answers-Make sure the client's legs are elevated while in bed. The nurse should ensure the client e...

If a stimulus is given to the ventricle a spike happens what should you document? - Answers-depolarization has occurred What is normal HGB? - Answers-Delete this answer is in another one DELETE If a pt cant pee after surgery what should be first thing to do? - Answers-bladder scan Why shouldn't you use moisturizing soaps to clean the skin in ureterostomy? - Answers-because it makes it not adhere to the skin How long would you avoid direct exposure to sunafter radiation therapy in th...

What are the normal ranges for RBC? What can increase levels What happens to levels during pregnancy? - Answers-Males: 4.7-6.1 million Female: 4.2-5.4 million Exercise and high altitudes can cause an increase levels pregnancy usually lower values drug therapy can alter values Never draw a specimen from an arm with an infusing IV. What are the normal ranges for PLATELETS? What may increase values? What may decrease values? What drugs decrease values? - Answers-Both Genders: -

Stimulus Generalization - Answers-Individual responds to something in the same way that resembles the original thing from which they learned (e.g. seeing an animal with a tail and saying, "kitty"). Response Generalization - Answers-The effects of intervention are expanded from a target response to a similar non-targeted behavior; the form of the response/behavior changes. 7 strategies to promote generalization- Common Stimuli - Answers-Programming common stimuli by ensuring that same sDs...

whole interval recording - Answers-used to measure continuous behaviors or behaviors that occur at such high rates that observers have difficulty distinguishing one response from another but can detect whether the behavior is occurring at any given time; target behavior must be exhibited for the entire interval to be counted; underestimates behavior partial interval recording - Answers-records whether the behavior occurred at any time during the interval; overestimates total duration, but und...