In treating clients with prolonged anxiety, the nurse knows it is most important to:
1. Teach communication skills.
2. Explore old and ineffective coping strategies.
3. Encourage the expression of anger.
4. Help clients use anxiety to increase self-awareness and develop coping strategies.
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Rationale: Helping clients use anxiety to learn about themselves and to develop coping strategies is a way to view anxiety from a positive position, whereas exploring old and ineffective coping strategies focus on what has not worked. Although teaching communication skills and encouraging the expression of anger may be important, they are not the most important interventions at this time.
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She is not sure that she has enough money to buy both food for the rest of the month and the antibiotic that is needed for the child's ear infection. Which intervention by the nurse would be most beneficial for the child and this family? 1. Talking with the mother about keeping the child's ear clean by using a Q-tip 2. Putting the mother in contact with a local agency that provides food on a regular basis to needy families and helps them access other resources in the community 3. Providing the mother with samples of food and food stamps for the child 4. Giving the mother free samples of an antibiotic.
Volunteering to serve on a church committee organized to improve the health outcomes of local elementary school children would fall within which Circle?
A. First B. Second C. Third D. Core
If a patient is requiring six rescue doses for breakthrough pain in a 24-hour period, what would be an appropriate intervention?
a. Increase the dose of the baseline long-acting medication. b. Increase the dose of the rescue short-acting medication. c. Switch to a different short-acting rescue medication. d. Do nothing, because this is appropriate and the patient's pain is well controlled.
The operating room (OR) nurse is preparing medications for use in a sterile field during a surgical procedure. While preparing these medications, the nurse will
a. save unused portions of medication for use in another procedure. b. differentiate between sterile and nonsterile medications to be used in the OR. c. ensure the scrub (sterile) nurse retrieves the medication from storage. d. read the label aloud for verification against the order from the surgeon.