Nurs 404 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Beneficience correct answers The quality of doing good can be described as charity Autonomy correct answers The clients right to make her own decisions but the client must accept the consequences of those decisions. The client must also respect the decisions of others. Justice correct answers Fair and equal treatment for all Fidelity correct answers Loyalty and faithfulness to the client and to ones duty Veracity correct answers Honesty when dealing with a client Agoraphobia corre...

1. A nurse is caring for a client who is having surgery for the removal of an encapsulated acoustic tumor. Which of the following potential complications should the nurse monitor for postoperatively? (Select all that apply.) A. Increased intracranial pressure B. Hemorrhagic shock C. Hydrocephalus D. Hypoglycemia E. Seizure correct answers A. Increased intracranial pressure, C. Hydrocephalus, and E. Seizure 2. A nurse is caring for a client who has just undergone a craniotomy for a su...

Instructions to request For this assessment, first review the nursing-sensitive quality indicators presented in the Assessment 04 Supplement: Informatics and Nursing Sensitive quality Indicators [PDF] resource and select one nursing-sensitive quality indicator to use as the focus for this assessment. Next, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council ha...

Proposal Format The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the headings below in your proposal and to be sure to address the bullets following each heading. Remember that you will emphasize the focus of the new nurse informaticist position as described in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF] resource. Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist What is nursing informatics? What is the role o...

mental health correct answers the state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community (WHO) mental health is characterized by... correct answers rational thinking, communication skills, learning, emotional growth, resilience, self-esteem, effective coping mental illness correct answers refers to all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses menta...

The family nurse conducts the family nursing assessment with the family as a unit. Using a systematic process, family problems are identified and family strengths are emphasized as building blocks for interventions. Which of the following best completes the statement to demonstrate the importance of assessment to outcomes? Integrating the extended families: A. fosters equal family and provider commitment to success. B. facilitates outcomes-oriented family nursing research. C. decreases ...

An elderly patient has undergone hip replacement surgery. On the second postoperative day, the nurse finds that the pedal pulses are absent and the lower extremities are cold to the touch. What should the nurse interpret from this finding? A. It is an age-related effect. B. The patient's hip joint has dislocated. C. The room temperature is too cold. D. The patient has venous thrombus formation correct answers D. The absence of pedal pulses and abnormally cold extremities indicate that the...

____ rejection: occurs minutes to hours after a transplant d/t preexisting antibodies against the transplanted organ; no TM and the organ is removed correct answers hyperacute _____ rejection: manifests in the first 6 months after a transplant and is usually mediated by the recipients lymphocytes which have been activated aganist the donated tissue; usually reversible with additional ____ therapy ( risk for ____ and ____) correct answers acute immunosuppressive infection malignancies _...

Which of the following features would NOT be considered part of the milieu? A. The color of the paint on the wall of the unit B. The daily activities in the unit C. The landscape in public area outside of an opaque window D. Noise level on the unit correct answers C. The landscape in public area outside of an opaque window Which scenario describes a behavioral emergency on an inpatient psychiatric unit A. A patient who is waving his clenched fists, cursing, and threatening the nurse ...

What's the most common symptom of Esophageal cancer? correct answers Progressive Dysphagia How is esophageal cancer diagnosed? correct answers Barium Swallow (identifies irregular surface on the esophagus - first test done) CT PET Endoscopic ultrasonography Thoracoscopy Laparoscopy What risk factors are associated with esophageal cancer? correct answers Smoking Alcohol Nursing management of Esophageal cancer correct answers 6 small meals, high protein/high fat *Collaborate w sp...