If you threaten to hold or restrain a patient so as to make her cooperate with a procedure, you may be guilty of
A. assault.
B. battery.
C. defamation.
D. slander.
Answer: A
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The nurse is caring for a 65-year-old patient who has previously been diagnosed with hypertension. Which of the following blood pressure readings represents the threshold between high-normal blood pressure and hypertension?
A) 140/90 mm Hg B) 145/95 mm Hg C) 150/100 mm Hg D) 160/100 mm Hg
The client is 4 days postoperative from a bowel resection and has a large abdominal incision. When the nurse enters the client's room, he tells her that he felt the incision "pop" when he coughed just a moment ago
What is the nurse's best response? A. "It is good that you are coughing and deep breathing to prevent lung complica-tions." B. "That is a normal feeling in the incision whenever you are moving." C. "Be sure to splint the incision with a pillow or your hands when you cough." D. "Lie down flat on the bed and let me examine your incision."
A home health care agency has major problems but does not want consumers to know about these problems while the agency decides what should be done to improve them. Employees are not told to lie,
but they are advised not to share information. Which of the following is the most likely outcome of this situation? a. As long as employees do not share what they know, the community will be uninformed. b. By law, comparative information will be available to the public via the Internet. c. Only a few informed persons will know about the problems. d. Secrecy will prevail unless the local newspaper does an investigative report.
T.B. is a 65-year-old retiree who is admitted to your unit from the emergency department (Ed). On arrival,
you note that he is trembling and nearly doubled over with severe abdominal pain. T.B. indicates that he has severe pain in the right upper quadrant (RUQ) of his abdomen that radiates through to his mid back as a deep, sharp, boring pain. He is more comfortable walking or sitting bent forward rather than lying flat in bed. He admits to having had several similar bouts of abdominal pain in the last month, but "none as bad as this." He feels nauseated but has not vomited, although he did vomit a week ago with a similar episode. T.B. experienced an acute onset of pain after eating fried fish and chips at a fast-food restaurant earlier today. He is not happy to be in the hospital and is grumpy that his daughter insisted on taking him to the Ed for evaluation. After orienting him to the room, you perform your physical assessment. The findings are as follows: He is awake, alert, and oriented× 3, and he moves all extremities well. He is restless, constantly shifting his position, and complains of fatigue. Breath sounds are clear to auscultation. Heart sounds are clear and crisp, with no murmur or rub noted and with a regular rate and rhythm. Abdomen is flat, slightly rigid, and very tender to palpation throughout, especially in the RUQ; bowel sounds are present. He reports having light-colored stools for 1 week. The patient voids dark amber urine but denies dysuria. skin and sclera are jaundiced. Admission vital signs are blood pressure 164/100, pulse of 132 beats/min, respiration 26 breaths/min, temperature of 100° F (37.8° C), spo2 96% on 2 L of oxygen by nasal cannula. What structures are located in the RUQ of the abdomen? What will be an ideal response?