A patient has had an infected facial wound for more than 3 months. How does the nurse expect the patient's enlarged lymph nodes to feel?
a. Soft, edematous, and tender
b. Round, tender, and movable
c. Hard, nontender, and nonmobile
d. Irregularly shaped, tender, and firm
ANS: B
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A) Chronic liver failure B) Acute heart failure C) Pathologic bone fractures D) Hypoxemia
A nurse has attended an inservice workshop that addressed the phenomenon of ageism in the health care system. Which of the following practices is indicative of ageism?
A) Implementing falls prevention measures in a setting where older adults receive care B) Providing slightly smaller servings of food for clients who are elderly C) Speaking to older adults with the presumption that they have mild cognitive deficits D) Assessing the skin turgor of an older adult differently than that of a younger adult
In the communication process, encoding is defined as
a. a stimulus produced by a sender and re-sponded to by a receiver b. the person who interprets the sender's mes-sage c. a person who generates a message d. the use of language or other signs and sym-bols for sending messages
A patient has been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the liver and is receiving chemotherapy on a medical unit. In an in-depth conversation with the nurse, the patient states, "I don't think that the test results could be right." According to Kubler-Ross, the nurse identifies that this stage is associated with:
A) anxiety B) denial C) bargaining D) depression