The primary healthcare provider prescribes a thyroid replacement drug to a patient with hypothyroidism. How should the nurse monitor for return to a euthyroid state?
A. Assess for anxiety and palpitations.
B. Verify the medication history of patient and family.
C. Evaluate the patient's knowledge of thyroid therapy.
D. Analyze the patient's serum thyroid-stimulating hormone levels.
Answer: D. Analyze the patient's serum thyroid-stimulating hormone levels.
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Select all that apply. 1. Inspection. 2. Palpation. 3. Bulge sign testing. 4. Ballottement. 5. Percussion.
When the patient who overeats insists that weight gain is related to retained fluids, the nurse recognizes the patient is using which defense mechanism?
a. Compensation b. Rationalization c. Sublimation d. Regression
A hospital director of nursing (DON) establishes a hospital-wide committee to process the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report "The Future of Nursing:
Leading Change, Advancing Health" and to create unit-based activities that support its recommendations. A unit manager asks about the importance of the endeavor. What response by the DON is best? a. If nursing doesn't change with the times, the future of the discipline is threatened. b. Nursing has to remodel itself according to the mandates of the report. c. Operationalizing the report allows nurses to drive health care reform. d. Patient safety will be adversely affected if nursing doesn't transform itself.
All of the room space, furniture, and equipment provided by the hospital for one patient is called the
A) patient environment. B) patient care area. C) patient unit. D) none of the above