In addition to handwashing, what important precaution must the nurse take when changing the dressing of an AIDS patient?
a. Wearing mask
b. Wearing gown and gloves
c. Wearing gloves
d. Strict isolation
C
The use of Standard Precautions and body substance isolation has been shown not only to reduce the risk of blood-borne pathogens, but also to reduce the risk of transmission of other diseases between the patient and the health care worker.
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A client receiving muromonab-CD3 (Orthoclone OKT3) asks the nurse how the drug works. What response by the nurse is best?
a. "It increases the elimination of T lymphocytes from circulation." b. "It inhibits cytokine production in most lymphocytes." c. "It prevents DNA synthesis, stopping cell division in activated lymphocytes." d. "It prevents the activation of the lymphocytes responsible for rejection."
Which of the following is an aspect of the bone growth and development that occurs during the first two decades of life?
A) Most bone abnormalities can be traced to anomalies in the embryonic stage of development. B) The physiological effects of in utero positioning normally remain into late adolescence. C) Cartilage cells at the metaphyseal end of the bone plate are replaced by bone cells. D) Bone length increases through childhood, while bone diameter remains static.
A high school football player injured his wrist in a game. He is tender between the two tendons at the base of the thumb. Which of the following should be considered?
A) DeQuervain's tenosynovitis B) Scaphoid fracture C) Wrist sprain D) Rheumatoid arthritis
The nurse teaching the phases of the menstrual cycle should include the fact that the corpus luteum begins to degenerate, estrogen and progesterone levels fall, and extensive vascular changes occur in which phase?
1. Menstrual phase 2. Proliferative phase 3. Secretory phase 4. Ischemic phase