The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new guidelines for infection control. Nursing care plans for patients with infection mainly address which pro-tocol?
1. Disease-specific precautions
2. The manner in which clean gloves are worn
3. Standard Precautions guidelines
4. Placement of needles and sharps
3
The CDC has issued new guidelines for Standard Precautions for infection control. These cover 1, 2, and 4. Only answer 3 is all-inclusive.
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What type of blood pressure measurement error is most likely to occur if the nurse does not check for the presence of an auscultatory gap?
a. Diastolic blood pressure may not be heard. b. Diastolic blood pressure may be falsely low. c. Systolic blood pressure may be falsely low. d. Systolic blood pressure may be falsely high.
The patient shares with the nurse the vivid, full color dreams experienced by the patient last night. These data would indicate that the patient has reached what stage of sleep?
a. Stage 1 NREM b. Stage 2 NREM c. Stage 3 NREM d. REM
A nurse reviews a patient's care plan and finds a goal for the patient to ambulate at least three times a day. The nurse assists the patient to accomplish this goal. The nurse is participating in which step of the nursing process?
a. Planning b. Evaluation c. Data collection d. Implementation
The product of ethnographic research is a holistic description of the culture, but sometimes the products are performance ethnographies. What is performance ethnography?
A) Interpretive scripts that can be performed B) Focus on the organization of professional services from the perspective of the front-line worker C) Focus on the group or culture to which the researcher belongs D) Putting together an array of data drawn from many sources to arrive at a holistic understanding of a phenomenon