The nurse is caring for a client who is experiencing chronic fatigue. The nurse and the client decide that the client will show an increase in energy levels by doing which of the following:
1. Being compliant with medications for depression
2. Shopping once a week
3. Spending time with friends
4. Increasing exercise time each week
1. Being compliant with medications for depression
Rationale: Depression causes chronic fatigue. Compliance with medications results in relief of depression and therefore increases energy levels. Shopping, spending time with friends, and increasing exercise levels will not help the client who is clinically depressed.
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The nurse is instructing client's about the importance of taking the shingles vaccine. Which client would benefit from this vaccine?
A) A 24-year-old client who is pregnant B) A 17-year-old client who will be attending college and living in a dormitory C) A 32-year-old client who has never had chickenpox D) A 65-year-old client who had chicken pox when he was 12 years old
The nurse entered the client's room and greeted the client. Yet, the client could not communicate verbally. This condition is called:
a. ataxia c. impaired oral reflex b. affect d. aphasia
These statements are about the integumentary system. Which is correct?
a. It is the skin. b. It is the body's artificial covering. c. It is the smallest body system. d. It has three layers.
Nurses encounter poor persons, families, and populations in a variety of settings. To provide effective care nurses should:
1. Move to the area where people are living to understand their plight 2. Understand the concept of poverty on many levels 3. Take a trip abroad to see how poverty exists in other countries 4. Become fully immersed in the concept of poverty for at least a year