When a nurse picks up a client's contaminated tissue without gloves and fails to wash the hands sufficiently, the nurse provides for the client's organisms to be spread by which type of transmission?
A) Airborne
B) Contact
C) Vector
D) Vehicle
Ans: B
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Review the charting sample and determine which documentation error occurred
1000: Hygienic care given 1100: Complaint of leg pain 1300: Appetite good, resting comfortably a. Recording on the wrong chart b. Failure to document an intervention c. Failure to document a discontinued medication d. Failure to record outcome of an intervention
A student is accompanying the nurse today. A newly admitted ICU client with a diagnosis of pulmonary edema has an elevated JVD and an S3
Based upon these assessment findings, the nurse indicates to the student that this is which type of pulmonary edema? 1. Cardiogenic 2. Neurogenic 3. High altitude 4. Excessive IV fluid administration
Which of the following differential diagnosis for patients presenting with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) can be ruled out with a muscle biopsy?
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