Increased BUN and creatinine, hyperkalemia, and hypernatremia are all characteristics of which stage of kidney disease?
a. Stage 1 CKD
b. Mild CKD
c. Moderate CKD
d. ESKD
Answer: d. ESKD
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What should the nurse do in this situation? A) Explain to the group of physicians that the patient currently has a visitor and ask whether they could come by later. B) Ask the visitor to leave so that the teaching group can discuss the patient's case. C) Allow the teaching group to enter the patient's room, as he has already given approval for them to visit. D) Instruct the physicians to give clear explanations of the medical jargon they use.
Nurses working with older adult patients must remember which factors about their kidney function and administration of their medications? (Select all that apply.)
a. Older adult patients are all alike with regard to kidney function and medications. b. Drugs excreted by the kidney must be assessed individually in older adults. c. The nurse should remember factors about liver function only and not kidney function in older adults. d. Longer dosage intervals and lower doses are generally appropriate for older adults with kidney damage. e. With older adults, creatinine clearance values help measure kidney function.
The nurse manager of a unit with older non-English-speaking patients notes that an unusually large number of conflicts occur between the younger nursing assistants and the patients
What should the manager identify as reasons for these conflicts? Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. Language 2. Education 3. Birth order 4. Decade of birth 5. Generation in the United States
Your patient reported each of the following facts when questioned about his family's health history. Which fact prompts you to question him further to determine if he might have a familial neurological disease?
a. His father was paralyzed at age 45 from a spinal cord tumor. b. His older brother has a seizure disorder. c. His grandfather died of complications related to diabetes. d. His grandmother had hypertension and died of complications resulting from a cerebrovascular accident.