Which statement about hemorrhage is correct?
a. Internal hemorrhage can be seen.
b. Bleeding from an artery occurs gradually.
c. To stop external bleeding, apply light pressure to the bleeding site.
d. The EMS system must be activated.
D
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A client's labor has progressed so rapidly that a precipitous birth is occurring. The nurse should:
1. Go to the nurse's station and immediately call the physician. 2. Run to the delivery room for an emergency birth pack. 3. Stay with the client and ask for auxiliary personnel for assistance. 4. Try to delay the delivery of the infant's head until the physician arrives.
A cognitively impaired patient who has been a widow for 30 years is frantically trying to leave the unit, saying, "I have to go home to start dinner before my husband comes home from work."
To intervene with validation therapy, the nurse should say: a. "Please, you must come away from the door.". b. "Mrs. Smith, you have been a widow for many years.". c. "You want to go home to get your husband's dinner.". d. "I think your husband said he is going to eat out tonight.".
The nurse is reading the cardiac monitor and notes that the patient's heart rhythm is extremely irregular and there are no discernible P waves. The ventricular rate is 90 beats per minute, and the patient is hemodynamically stable
The nurse realizes that the patient's rhythm is: a. atrial fibrillation. b. atrial flutter. c. atrial flutter with rapid ventricular response. d. junctional escape rhythm.
When planning care for adolescents, the nurse should:
a. teach parents first, and they, in turn, will teach the teenager. b. provide information for their long-term health needs because teenagers respond best to long-range planning. c. maintain the parents' role by providing ex-planations for treatment and procedures to the parents only. d. give information privately to adolescents about how they can manage the specific problems that they identify.