A cancer patient has taken opioids for 2 years but now requires increasing doses to obtain relief. In a conversation with the nurse, the patient expresses fear about becoming addicted to the drugs. Select the nurse's best response
1. "Addiction is not possible with opioid use."
2. "Addiction is a major concern, and you are being closely monitored for it."
3. "The risk of addiction is greater than the benefit of pain relief, so we should start tapering your dosage."
4. "Taking prescribed medications for pain relief is not related to addiction."
Correct Answer: 4
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a. Encourage the patient to go back to sleep until the preprocedure medication has worn off. b. Administer a sedative to help calm the patient. c. Call the physician and report the patient's response. d. Explain that the patient is in the hospital and has just had ECT.
The nurse working in the emergency department (ED) is assessing an infant client. Whch findings support the diagnosis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)?
Select all that apply. A) Rhinorrhea B) Irritability C) Grunting D) Bradypnea E) Tachypnea
A contract can be written or oral, includes a set of promises between two people, and states the obligations both must fulfill. This contract establishes a relationship between the two people that is:
a. binding. b. legal. c. cohesive. d. secure.
The nurse selects the approach that would help with effective planning for the delivery of transcultural nursing care, which is to ask the:
1. facility's chaplain if there is anything special that should be included in the care plan. 2. patient if there are any special foods, symbols, or practices that he or she would like to be respected and asks about plans for including them in the health care plan. 3. family if there is anything special to the patient's culture or religion that may need to be included in care planning. 4. other staff if they have ever had this type of patient before and how they modified the care plan.