Usually caused by misguided and unfounded beliefs about the race, ethnicity, age, sex, sexual orientation, or religion of the person or group,
____________________ can cause a patient to become reluctant to seek further assistance from a nurse or other health-care providers.
Fill in the blank with correct word.
ANS:
discrimination
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You are an emergency department nurse working triage during a disaster. Why should you tag a victim after assessment in a disaster situation?
A) To know the victim's name B) The tag states the triage category of the victim. C) Someone else does not duplicate the assessment. D) Call for immediate hospitalization.
The client weighs 145 kilograms. The client is 1.75 meters. What is this client's body mass index (BMI) using the following formula: BMI = weight (kg)/height2 (meters)? Round to the nearest whole number. ____ Standard Text:
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A patient in heart failure has a decrease in glomerular filtration rate to 15 ml/min. The patient had been taking digoxin and hydrochlorothiazide. Given the change in the patient's status, what dosage alteration(s) would the nurse anticipate?
a. The medication doses would remain unchanged. b. The hydrochlorothiazide would be changed to furosemide. c. Spironolactone would be added to the digoxin and hydrochlorothiazide. d. No change should be necessary.
Subjective and symptomatic data are:
a. documented with the physical examina-tion findings. b. not mentioned in the legal chart. c. placed in the history section. d. recorded with the examination technique.