Varicose veins and haemorrhoids usually become less evident following childbirth because:
a. blood volume is greatly reduced.
b. progesterone levels are greatly reduced.
c. pelvic pressure is reduced.
d. of all of the above.
ANS: D
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documentation practices are inadequate. The understanding about the relation of substandard institutional policies and individual nursing practice that should guide nursing practice is a. the policies do not absolve the individual nurse of the responsibility to practice according to professional standards of nursing care. b. agency policies are considered by the courts to be the legal standard by which the professional nurse must act and therefore override the American Nurses Association standards of care. c. in an institution with substandard policies, the nurse has a responsibility to inform the supervisor and leave the premises without delay. d. interpretation by the judicial system will be rendered on an individual basis and therefore cannot be predicted.
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