The pediatric nurse working in the intensive care unit knows that severe pain causes pallor, sweating, piloerection (elevation of the hair above the skin), dilated pupils, increased respiration and blood pressure, and muscle tension
A) True
B) False
A
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The nurse manager has planned a meeting that all staff nurses have to attend. Which method would most efficiently notify the staff members of the meeting time?
1. E-mail 2. Voice mail 3. Memo 4. Telephone call
A home care nurse is completing the follow-up visit of a 92-year-old client. During the visit the client describes feelings that everyone is out to get him
He continues to describe paranoid thoughts and seems to become increasingly angry and frustrated. The nurse's assessment of this behavior indicates the need to A) call the family to come and calm the client. B) avoid further discussion of the problem because the client is upset. C) contact the client's physician to obtain further psychological assessment of the paranoia. D) no intervention, this is a normal finding in the elderly as a result of hearing loss.
If the prescriber orders 30 mL q 1 hr of a 50% formula for an adult nutritional formula, what is the ratio of the formula to the water added?
What will be an ideal response?
Not having enough cardiac output can attribute to ___________.?
A) hypercalcemia B) hypertension C) hypernatremia D) hyperkalemia