While performing an initial assessment on a newly admitted alcoholic patient, the nurse can best ensure honest answers by:
a. not asking personal questions.
b. having a nonjudgmental attitude.
c. including the family.
d. promising the patient not to tell anyone.
B
Maintaining a nonjudgmental attitude may reassure the patient and allow him to be more honest in his responses to the admission assessment.
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a. unionization. c. collective bargaining. b. workplace advocacy. d. legal decision making.
The postpartum nurse is planning discharge teaching for the postpartum mother, who has two other children at home. What is the best way to provide instruction to this patient?
1. Provide all information while discharging the patient. 2. Provide written discharge material only. 3. No teaching is required, as this is not the patient's first postpartum experience. 4. Deliver information a little at a time and repeat it until discharge.
The client and nurse have agreed that a goal of care is for the client to manage conflict assertively. After learning assertiveness techniques, the client feels ready to practice them
The nurse correctly applies knowledge of the evaluation step of the nursing process and demonstrates skill by doing what? A) Documenting that the goal has been met B) Suggesting that the client attend assertiveness training classes before documenting that the goal has been met C) Waiting to hear how the client has put the skills into practice before documenting that the goal has been met D) Asking the client to restate the techniques before documenting that the goal has been met
The primary goal of therapy to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease is to lower serum levels of _____ cholesterol.
a. total b. LDL c. HDL d. very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL)