When assessing your client's bowel sounds, you would normally expect to hear:
1. constant, loud, "tinkling" sounds in all areas.
2. gurgling, high-pitched sounds.
3. muffled, continuous, growling sounds.
4. absence of sounds.
ANS: 2
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The nurse is assisting a patient to clarify values by encouraging the expression of feelings and thoughts related to the situation. The nurse recognizes it is necessary to:
a. compare her values with those of the patient. b. make a judgment. c. withhold an opinion. d. give advice.
A patient is admitted to the cardiac care unit from the emergency department. He is receiving amiodarone (Cordarone), because his frequent runs of ventricular tachycardia have proved re-fractory to other drugs
The rationale for using this very toxic, potentially ventricular antidys-rhythmic drug is that it a. delays action potential. b. delays repolarization. c. opens calcium and sodium channels. d. vasoconstricts peripheral vessels.
Evidence-based practice relies on meticulous integration of research evidence on a topic
A) True B) False
When attempting to locate recent lab results, the new nurse employee notices that each department has a separate section in the client's chart. Which type of documentation system is the nurse using?
1. Source-oriented record 2. Problem-oriented record 3. Case management 4. Focus charting