The complaint of proximal thigh pain in an older client who has fallen leads the nurse to suspect a hip fracture and that the location of the fracture is
a. intracapsular.
b. intratrochanteric.
c. subtrochanteric.
d. the femoral neck.
C
Subtrochanteric fractures typically produce pain over the proximal thigh. Groin pain is associated with a femoral neck fracture and pain over the trochanter with an intratrochanteric fracture.
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During discharge teaching with a client diagnosed with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, the nurse should stress which of the following points? (Select all that apply.)
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A nurse is adding a sterile solution to a sterile field and has just opened the bottle according to manufacturer's directions. What is the next step?
A) Touch the tip of the bottle to the sterile container to start the flow of the solution and pour it into the container directly from the top of the container edge. B) Hold the bottle outside the edge of the sterile field with the label side facing the palm of the hand and prepare to pour from a height of 4 to 6 inches. C) "Lip" a new or old bottle of solution before pouring it and hold the solution with the label facing out from a height of 4 to 6 inches. D) Hold the bottle inside the 1-inch edges of the sterile field with the label side facing the palm of the hand and pour from a height of 2 to 4 inches.
In a "don't smoke, don't start" program the school nurse decided to focus on all three aspects of the epidemiologic triangle. Therefore the nurse would include:
A. The benefits of smoking, the risks of smoking, and the expense of smoking. B. The pleasures of smoking, the risks of smoking, and the costs of smoking. C. The risks of nicotine, genetic factors related to nicotine absorption, and media pressures to smoke. D. The risks of nicotine, the cost of smoking, and the taxes on cigarettes.