A patient, with a history of aspiration pneumonia, is going to receive enteral feedings. What nursing interventions should be implemented?
1. Add a bit of food coloring to the bag of enteral feeding to help assess for aspiration.
2. Use a chlorhexidine mouth rinse during oral care.
3. Position the head of the patient's bed at 30 degrees.
4. Avoid suctioning the patient while feedings are in progress.
Answer: 2
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A home health nurse has been assigned to cover a 300-square-mile area of remote Montana. Mrs. Baker has just been discharged home following bowel surgery and has a new colostomy
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With the current shortage of nursing faculty and nursing programs, which nursing care delivery model is least feasible in many agencies?
a. Total patient care b. Primary nursing c. Team nursing d. Case management
Operating systems (OS) are:
a. server systems. b. programming languages. c. software in the background. d. convergent technology.