A client reports being on a popcorn diet to lose weight. What should the nurse include when responding to this client?
a. Restricting food choices is an excellent way to lose weight
b. Popcorn diets work by filling the stomach without adding calories
c. Weight loss is best accomplished by following a balanced diet with exercise
d. Popcorn is a natural food containing all the nutrients needed for a balanced diet
c. Weight loss is best accomplished by following a balanced diet with exercise
Restricting food choices results in a diet that has limited nutrients. Plain popcorn adds fiber and carbohydrates to the diet, but if eaten with butter also adds calories from fat. Weight loss is best accomplished by following a balanced diet and including regular exercise. Popcorn contains mostly carbohydrates and is not an adequate energy source.
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A. "Don't worry; women often get this way during labor." B. "Maybe if you step out for a while, she'll feel better." C. "She must concentrate to cope with her labor." D. "This is a difficult period; it will be over shortly."
A psychiatric nurse visits one particular patient before work, seeks out the patient during the shift, and spends a few minutes with the patient after going off duty. Which analysis is accurate? The nurse is:
a. overinvolved. b. expressing anger. c. experiencing transference. d. looking to be rescued.
The medical record of a client about to be admitted to the inpatient unit states the client is diagnosed
as having bipolar I disorder. The nurse should expect the client to display symptoms of a. rapid cycling. b. major depression or acute mania. c. major depression or hypomania. d. hypomania or minor depression.
The nurse wants to find written standards for IV therapy. The nursing manager suggests that the nurse investigate publications from which resource?
a. IV Therapy Nursing Society b. Infusion Nurses Society c. Nurse's State Board of Nursing d. Hospital's IV solutions vendor