A nurse gives anticipatory guidance to the family of a patient diagnosed with mild AD. Which problem common to that stage should be addressed?
a. Violent outbursts
b. Emotional disinhibition
c. Communication deficits
d. Inability to feed or bathe self
C
Families should be made aware that the patient will have difficulty concentrating and following or carrying on in-depth or lengthy conversations. The other symptoms are usually seen at later stages of the disease.
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1. A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. D.
The nurse is caring for a patient with MODS secondary to septic shock whose urine output was 10 mL for the last 2 hours. Temperature is 97 degrees, pulse is 124 and thready, and BP is 88/48. Which order is the current priority?
1. Place the patient on a warming blanket. 2. Administer isotonic fluids at 20 mL/kg/hr. 3. Draw blood for BUN and creatinine. 4. Place the patient in a kinetic bed.
Convert 1/4 cup to an equivalent amount in tablespoons
1. 15 T 2. 10 T 3. 8 T 4. 4 T
A patient is in the late stages of liver failure with cirrhosis and progressive, irreversible damage. Knowing this, the nurse explains to the family that:
1. Liver transplantation is the only feasible treatment. 2. Abstinence from alcohol may decrease further liver cell injury and improve portal hypertension. 3. The liver is the only organ affected so that the patient and family need not worry about other body systems. 4. If the patient does not have any variceal hemorrhages he will probably live for years.