The reliability of health-related findings and observations is the responsibility of the:
a. patient.
b. professional and medical assistants.
c. attending physician.
d. professional and the patient.
D
It is the responsibility of the health professional and patient to present reliable findings and ob-servations. They work as a team.
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a. deals strictly with health promotion. b. focuses on the needs of the community. c. is a linkage of health services across set-tings. d. provides another health care option for the homeless.
The nurse chooses to apply Montgomery ties to secure the dressing over a client's open abdominal wound that is being irrigated and packed every 8 hours. What nursing diagnosis does this intervention specifically support?
What will be an ideal response?
A client tells the nurse that she and her husband are planning to start a family soon. The nurse should provide which of the following information to the client to ensure healthy sensory functioning of the newborn?
1. Testing for syphilis and rubella 2. Importance of ingesting zinc 3. The need to limit vitamin A intake 4. Avoiding foods high in folic acid
The nurse obtains a rhythm strip on a patient who has had a myocardial infarction and makes the following analysis:
no visible P waves, P-R interval not measurable, ventricular rate 162, R-R interval regular, and QRS complex wide and distorted, QRS duration 0.18 second. The nurse interprets the patient's cardiac rhythm as a. atrial flutter. b. sinus tachycardia. c. ventricular fibrillation. d. ventricular tachycardia.