Many nurses fail to provide spiritual care to their clients for which of the following reasons?
a. The client does not request assistance in this area.
b. Their facility prohibits involvement in a client's personal life.
c. Their personal spiritual views differ from the client's.
d. Spiritual needs are viewed as a family or clergy responsibility.
D
The nurse can also call on a client's religious support system, such as rabbis, clergy, or laypersons, to provide spiritual care. Nurses must also recognize and respect that some people do not believe in a higher being or practice a specific religion.
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A) The nurse with a broken arm and is working with a cast on B) The nurse who is responding to three simultaneous call bells C) The nurse who has worked 8 hours of a 10-hour shift and has missed lunch D) The nurse who has misplaced the thermometer needed to perform routine temperature checks
A patient has just had a plaster of Paris upper extremity cast placed because of a fractured radius. Which statement indicates that the patient understands the discharge teaching related to cast care?
a. "When I get home, I will remove some of the padding if it feels tight so my fingers don't swell." b. "When I get home, I will wrap the cast in plastic so it will conserve the heat." c. "When I get home, I will use a spoon handle to scratch inside if my arm itches." d. "When I get home, I am going to rest in bed with my arm elevated above my heart."
Timing of the get-and-go test enhances its sensitivity. The process should take less than
A. Thirty seconds B. Sixteen seconds C. Sixty seconds D. Ten seconds
The nurse is assessing a small infant and notices that when the child's head is moved to the right or left, the eyes follow and do not lag behind as they normally do in a small infant. The nurse would document this finding as:
a. bilateral lag syndrome c. absence of horizontal vibratory motion b. absence of doll's eye reflex d. follow-through visual abnormality