A nursing student is writing a care plan for a client hospitalized with pneumonia. Her priority nursing diagnosis is ineffective airway clearance. Which intervention should the nursing student include?
A) Administration of the pneumococcal vaccine
B) Smoking cessation education
C) Limit fluid intake
D) Chest percussion
D
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Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is based on
A) abnormal CT scan findings of neuritic plaques and tangles in the brain. B) positive blood tests for beta-amyloid and tau proteins. C) client history, physical examination, and neuropsychological test results. D) biopsy of brain tissue.
The nurse is collecting a 24-hour urine sample on a child with suspected diagnosis of neuroblastoma. What finding in the urine is expected with neuroblastomas?
a. Ketones b. Catecholamines c. Red blood cells d. Excessive white blood cells
A review of family history reveals that a significant number of a patient's ancestors died very early from cardiac diseases. What is the best use of this information for the patient and the nurse?
1. The patient should avoid stress and exposure to communicable diseases. 2. The patient and the nurse should work together to identify other risk factors and establish a plan for health living. 3. The nurse should prepare the patient for the eventuality of an early death. 4. The nurse should encourage the patient not to have biological children.
A nurse manager had a few negative experiences when the nurse manager hired travel nurses
Because these travel nurses were coming from different parts of the United States, the nurse manager decided to check which of the following databases to see whether adverse actions had been taken against the nurses? a. Jungian Database b. National Practitioner Data Bank c. United States Protection Data Bank d. United States Integrity Data Bank