When the nurse is counseling a 60-year-old African-American male client with all of these risk factors for lung cancer, teaching should focus most on which risk factor?
A. Tobacco use
B. Ethnicity
C. Gender
D. Increased age
Ans: A. Tobacco use
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1. Promote comfort and keep the child pain-free. 2. Ensure that a good relationship is maintained with the family. 3. Keep the child entertained so she does not think about dying. 4. Maintain a busy schedule for child and family members.
A 15-year-old female has presented to her family physician complaining of frequent discomfort around the time of her period
She has subsequently been diagnosed with primary dysmenorrhea. Which of the following treatments is most likely to be effective? A) Investigation and resolution of her hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian disorder B) Hormone therapy aimed at resolving her estrogen deprivation C) Pain control with prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors D) Dilation and curettage
The nurse has completed the focused history for a patient admitted with acute abdominal pain. How should the nurse continue with the assessment?
1. Palpate for abdominal masses or tenderness. 2. Auscultate for bowel sounds. 3. Inspect the abdomen. 4. Percuss for abdominal tones.
A physician has just finished speaking with a client about his pancreatic cancer. After informing him that the cancer has metastasized to other distant organs and lymph nodes, he explained that future treatment would include which of the following?
a. surgery c. palliative care b. radiation therapy d. chemotherapy