Changes to nursing licensure are being considered. The nurse identifies which source of the state's power to license nurses?
1. Police power within the state
2. State and federal case laws
3. Constitution of the United States
4. Nurse practice act
1
Rationale: It is the states' police power that enables them to provide a license for nurses.
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1. Alcohol use. 2. Obesity. 3. Tobacco use. 4. Cocaine use.
The nurse is assessing the patient who has been diagnosed with delirium. The patient repeatedly cries out for her husband. The first intervention by the nurse would be to:
1. administer Haldol as ordered. 2. apply restraints so that the patient will not harm herself. 3. calmly tell the patient that she is in the hospital and her husband is not there. 4. call the husband and tell him that he needs to come stay with his wife.
he nurse is collecting the health history of a patient hospitalized for possible infective endocarditis. Which findings would the nurse evaluate as supporting this presumptive diagnosis?
1. The patient reports having rheumatic heart disease as a child. 2. The patient has asthma. 3. The patient had a routine screening colonoscopy 1 month ago. 4. The patient is maintained on hemodialysis. 5. The patient has developed osteoarthritis over the last 2 years.
The nurse will plan to teach a patient with Crohn's disease who has megaloblastic anemia about the need for
a. oral ferrous sulfate tablets. b. regular blood transfusions. c. iron dextran (Imferon) infusions. d. cobalamin (B12) spray or injections.