The Healthy People 2020 campaign provides an overall action plan to improve the health and quality of life for people living in the United States
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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The nurse is caring for an elderly client who is having difficulty raising secretions in order to clear her airway. The nurse understands that which of the following conditions likely affects this client's ability to clear her airway?
A) Reduced air exchange B) Exposure to airborne toxins C) Reduced efficiency in ventilation D) Atrophy of the larynx
A patient has been successfully converted from ventricular tachycardia with a pulse to a sinus rhythm. Upon further assessment, it is noted that she is hypotensive. The appropriate treatment for her hypotension may include: (Select all that apply.)
a. adenosine. b. dopamine infusion. c. magnesium. d. normal saline infusion. e. sodium bicarbonate.
A client is asking the nurse what she can do about the "falling down of her reproductive organs and urinary tract wall." The nurse will tell the client to try what exercise?
1. Lifting weights to strengthen those muscles 2. Running two miles a day 3. Running up and down stairs a few times every day 4. Performing Kegel exercises and having regular sexual activity
A parent of a newborn who has mental retardation asks the nurse to explain what the pediatrician meant then he said, "The brain of the newborn has anatomic plasticity
" Which of the following statements by the nurse would best explain anatomic plasticity? a. "This means nerve cells in certain brain areas can assume functions of a different area, or signals can be rerouted around a nonfunctioning area." b. "The brain is in a bony cage that, like hard plastic, will not give, and so parents must use caution to protect the head at all times." c. "The brain is heartier than previously thought and has a harder surface on the outer layer of the brain." d. "This is referring to the pliability of plastic, which is soft, and to the electric conductivity of plastic, which transmits signals rapidly."