The nurse is caring for a 4-year-old boy who has undergone an appendectomy. The child is unwilling to use the incentive spirometer. Which of the following approaches would most likely elicit the child's cooperation?
A) "Can you cough for me please?"
B) "You must blow in this or you might get pneumonia."
C) "If you don't try, I will have to get the doctor."
D) "Can you blow this cotton ball across the tray?"
D
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The nurse who is caring for a 23-year-old client with bulimia knows that the most common method of purging to monitor this client for is:
a. Vomiting b. Starvation c. Excessive enema use d. Use of syrup of ipecac
A nurse is caring for an older adult client admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. The client asks the nurse what can be done to decrease the risk for developing pneumonia in the future
Which responses by the nurse are the most appropriate? Select all that apply. A) "You should drink a yogurt drink once a day that is supplemented with L. casei immunitas cultures." B) "You can start by not smoking." C) "You can get the pneumonia vaccination, which may help to decrease your risk in the future." D) "Avoiding alcohol will help." E) "There is nothing that you can do to decrease your risk of pneumonia in the future."
When teaching a client who will be receiving home TPN and the primary caregiver for the client, the best way to evaluate the effectiveness of the instruction is:
a. have the caregiver demonstrate changing the CVAD dressing. b. instruct the client on the importance of follow-up visits for lab studies. c. have client and caregiver verbalize symptoms of line infection. d. provide the client and caregiver with verbal and written instructions.
The __________ __________ process is an interpersonal process in which both the teacher and the learner acquire new information, experience new relatedness, and behave in new ways as a result of the relationship
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