When the joint of a child with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is aspirated, the nurse anticipates that the fluid will be:
a. Thick and white
b. Cloudy and blood-tinged
c. Thin and yellow
d. Green and cloudy
D
The characteristic synovial fluid of a child with JIA is thin, green, and cloudy.
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Which of the following nursing interventions would be most likely to facilitate effective communication with a hearing impaired patient?
A) Ask the patient to repeat what was said in order to evaluate understanding. B) Stand directly in front of the patient to facilitate lip reading. C) Reduce environmental noise and distractions before communicating. D) Raise the voice to project sound at a higher frequency.
An adolescent female patient asks the nurse questions about menstruation. What should the nurse include when instructing the patient?
A) Keeping active increases discomfort. B) A prostaglandin inhibitor best relieves pain. C) Eating sour foods contributes to discomfort. D) Hair permanents do not take during a menstrual flow.
In reviewing the physical assessments of several patients, the nurse recognizes that the patient most likely to have gallstones would be the:
a. 37-year-old white man of normal weight on long-term corticosteroids for asthma. b. 42-year-old African American man of normal weight who has smoked for 25 years. c. 46-year-old Indonesian woman who is under normal weight and has recently had radiation treatments. d. 50-year-old obese Mexican American woman who has type 1 diabetes.
The term used to describe the situation that involves multiple drug prescriptions is ________.
A. monotherapy B. therapeutic duplication C. pharmacotherapy D. polypharmacy