The nurse is providing discharge teaching to a client with hemophilia. What should be the focus of this client's teaching?
1. Diet counseling.
2. Side effects of medications.
3. Prevention of injury.
4. Dressing warmly in the winter.
Answer: 3
1. The hemophiliac should eat a healthy diet, as everybody should. There are no special dietary instructions for a hemophiliac.
2. Hemophilia is not treated with medication.
3. Since the smallest cut can cause profuse bleeding, the focus of teaching for the client with hemophilia is prevention of injury.
4. There are no special requirements for dress in winter for the hemophiliac.
You might also like to view...
Nursing home policy states that a registered nurse must cosign all charts that licensed practical nurses complete. What is the effect of this policy on the registered nurse?
1. It places the RN in the position of endorsing and authenticating the entries made in the charts cosigned. 2. It gives legal proof that the RN was in the facility. 3. It has no legal effect on the RN. 4. It makes the RN personally liable for any subsequent harm that befalls the patient.
The earliest clinical manifestation of biliary atresia is
a. Jaundice b. Vomiting c. Hepatomegaly d. Absence of stooling
A client voices that he feels "anxious, but excited" about an upcoming job interview. The psychiatric nurse correctly assesses the client as being in the stress state of:
a. impoverishment b. arousal c. adaptive equilibrium d. maladaptive equilibrium
A mother brings her newborn daughter to the ER with concerns that she is having vaginal bleeding. You know this is normal and called what?
1. Pseudomenstruation 2. Milia 3. Vernix caseosa 4. Toxicum