A client with schizophrenia and substance abuse disorder is admitted to a detoxification program. The client has been prescribed neuroleptic medications for schizophrenia
When caring for this client, the nurse would implement interventions to reduce the client's risk for relapse, integrating knowledge that relapse frequently is secondary to which of the following?
A) Poor social skills
B) Lack of vocational skills
C) Medication non-adherence
D) Dysfunctional family systems
C
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The nurse is assessing an adolescent client who is fluent in English, participates in high school sports, values riding dirt bikes, and plans to go to college after graduating from high school. The client's health history indicates birth in China and immigrating to the United States at age 4. When asked where he is from, he says "the United States." What does the client's behavior and statements indicate to the nurse?
1. He has no interest in the interview. 2. He is embarrassed about his ethnicity. 3. He is assimilated into the American culture. 4. He wishes to deny his Asian heritage.
A 62-year-old male collapsed while unloading a truck of heavy sacks of feed for his cattle. When he arrived in the emergency department, blood gases reveal a slightly acidic blood sample. The nurse caring for this patient is not surprise with this result
A) The skeletal muscles are producing large amounts of lactic acid and release it into the bloodstream during heavy work/exercise.
B) During exercise, catabolism will break down stored nutrients and body tissues to produce energy.
C) Large amounts of free energy are released when ATP is hydrolyzed and then converted into adenosine diphosphate.
D) Within the mitochondria, energy from reduction of oxygen is used for phosphorylation of ADP to ATP.
The passage of medication molecules from the site of administration into the blood is known as absorption. Factors that affect the rate of absorption include which of the following? (Select all that apply)
a. The ability of a medication to dissolve b. Blood flow to the site of administration c. Body surface area d. Lipid solubility e. The rate of distribution
The nurse knows that elderly patients are at higher risk for complications and adverse outcomes during the intraoperative period. What is the best rationale for this phenomenon?
A) The elderly patient has more boney prominences than a younger person. B) The elderly patient has reduced ability to adjust rapidly to emotional and physical stress. C) The elderly patient has impaired thermoregulatory mechanisms, which increase susceptibility to hyperthermia. D) The elderly patient has an impaired ability to decrease his or her metabolic rate.