A patient believes that scheduled surgery is minor since it will be done as an outpatient. How should the nurse respond to this patient?
A. "You are right."
B. "Your insurance plan does not cover inpatient surgical procedures. That's why your surgery is being done as an outpatient."
C. "If it were more serious, you would be admitted to the hospital."
D. "Every surgical procedure is serious, and I will make sure you have information to have a successful recovery."
Answer: D
You might also like to view...
The building blocks of theory are which of the following?
A) Frameworks B) Relationships C) Concepts D) Hypotheses
After abdominal surgery, a patient must cough and take deep breaths. How can the nurse best achieve this with this patient?
a. Withhold analgesics until the patient per-forms this task. b. Help the patient splint the incision with a pillow. c. Explain that pneumonia occurs if deep breathing is not carried out every 4 hours. d. Ambulate the patient 40 feet to increase his need for oxygen.
After providing a.m. care for his patient, a nurse forgot to put the bed in the lowest position and left one of the bed rails down. The patient got out of bed and fell
The nurse could be reported to the board of nursing for 1. Assault. 2. Battery. 3. Negligence. 4. Libel.
Antiinfective prophylaxis is indicated for a pregnant client with a history of mitral valve stenosis related to rheumatic heart disease because the client is at risk of developing:
a. hypertension. b. postpartum infection. c. bacterial endocarditis. d. upper respiratory infections.