Which form has the person's identifying information?
a. Admission record
b. Progress notes
c. Activities-of-daily-living flow sheet
d. Kardex
A
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Which explanation from the Clinical Nurse Specialist would enable the nurse to understand the patient's behavior? a. The patient is suppressing her true feelings. She is upset but is not showing it. b. The blindness is actually helping the patient by reducing her anxiety. c. Her needs are met during hospitalization, so she has no need to be anxious. d. She is controlling her own anxiety through partial denial of the blindness.
A patient's primary immunodeficiency disease is characterized by the inability of white blood cells to initiate an inflammatory response to infectious organisms. What is this patient's most likely diagnosis?
A) Chronic granulomatous disease B) Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome C) Hyperimmunoglobulinemia E syndrome D) Common variable immunodeficiency
A woman who delivered her baby 6 hours ago complains of headache and dizziness. The nurse administers an analgesic but does not perform any assessments. The woman then has a grand mal seizure, falls out of bed, and fractures her femur
How would the actions of the nurse be interpreted in relation to standards of care? a. Negligent because the nurse failed to assess the woman for possible complications b. Negligent because the nurse medicated the woman c. Not negligent because the woman had signed a waiver concerning the use of side rails d. Not negligent because the woman did not inform the nurse of her symptoms as soon as they occurred
A man is scheduled for hospital outpatient surgery. He tells the nurse, "I don't know what that word, outpatient, means." How would the nurse respond?
A) "It means you will have surgery in the hospital and stay for 2 days." B) "It means the surgeon will come to your home to do the surgery." C) "Why would you ask such a question? Don't worry about it." D) "You will have surgery and go home that same day."