The nurse instructs a patient who has a drain in a surgical wound that the wound will heal by:
a. primary intention.
b. secondary intention.
c. tertiary intention.
d. deliberate intention.
C
When wounds are kept open by a drain, they heal by tertiary intention.
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A goal of Healthy People 2010 is full immunization of 95% of children in kindergarten and first grade in the United States. To reach this goal, the school nurse can teach families that:
1. A minor illness with a low-grade fever is a contraindication to receiving an immunization. 2. Vaccines should be given one at a time for optimum active immunity. 3. Premature infants and low-birth-weight infants should receive half-doses of vaccines. 4. The benefits of immunizations outweigh the risks of communicable diseases.
What does the nurse anticipate about the medications ordered for a client with liver disease?
1. They will be in lower doses than normal. 2. They will be administered by the parenteral route. 3. They will need to be divided evenly throughout the day. 4. They will need to be given with an antacid.
A nurse is preparing to lead an older adult group. Which of the following would the nurse need to keep in mind when leading this group?
A) Focusing the group to promote learning of new information B) Keeping the pace of the group meetings slow C) Discouraging the use of life-review strategies D) Teaching entirely new methods for coping
The nurse participates in a quality assurance program and reviewing evaluation data from the previous year. Which of the following does the nurse recognize as an example of outcome evaluation?
A) A 4% increase in the number of baccalaureate prepared nurses are employed in the facility. B) A 97% bed occupancy rate in the critical care areas; 92% bed occupancy rate in the non-critical care areas. C) A 2% reduction in the number of repeat admissions for clients who underwent hip replacement surgery. D) 98% of all hospital admissions had a nursing history completed within 24 hours of admission