The nurse is preparing a teaching plan for a 6-year-old boy with diabetes mellitus and his family. What is the priority teaching goal?
A) To develop management and decision-making skills
B) To educate the parents about diabetes mellitus type 1
C) To develop a nutritionally sound, 30-day meal plan
D) To teach the boy how to administer his own insulin
A
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A) Skin thickness B) Pulse rate C) Blood pressure D) Body temperature
A patient is recovering from intracranial surgery that was performed using the transsphenoidal approach. The nurse should be aware that the patient may have required surgery on what neurologic structure?
A) Cerebellum B) Hypothalamus C) Pituitary gland D) Pineal gland
A 2-year-old child has experienced multiple hospital admissions to treat a congenital heart disorder
Upon today's admission, the nurse notices that the child is lying curled in the bed holding a stuffed animal, and will not interact with the parents. How should the nurse interpret this withdrawal? A) The child could be suffering from a clinical depression. B) The child is reacting as a normal 2-year-old. C) The child is probably developmentally delayed secondary to multiple hospitalizations. D) The parents might have been abusing this child.
Many consumers and advocacy groups in the United States have raised concerns around the practices of the pharmaceutical industry. These concerns are most often motivated by the fact that
A) drug research and development is conducted overseas but most drugs are sold domestically. B) residents of other industrialized countries have better availability of drugs. C) drug costs are higher in the US than in many other industrialized countries. D) pharmaceutical companies have shown an unwillingness to develop new drugs.