To promote comfort for the terminally ill patient specific to nausea and vomiting, the nurse should:
A) provide prompt mouth care
B) offer high protein foods
C) increase the fluid intake
D) place the patient supine
A) provide prompt mouth care
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The nurse is caring for a client with a medical diagnosis of increased intracranial pressure. Which IV fluid order would the nurse accept without questioning?
1. Run normal saline at 125 mL/hour. 2. Run 5% dextrose in water at 80 mL/hour. 3. Run 5% dextrose in 0.45% NaCl at 75 mL/hour. 4. Run half-normal saline at 200 mL/hour.
The term used to explain physical complaints and symptoms that are expressed because of psychologic stress is what?
A) Hysteria B) Somatization C) Psychophysiologic D) Somatoform
Which nursing actions indicate that a nurse has developed a "surgical conscience"? Select all that apply
1. The nurse stops a surgeon who has contaminated an instrument before it is used on the patient. 2. The nurse discards a urinary catheter kit because the catheter is the wrong size. 3. The nurse uses an instrument from a sterile package that became outdated yesterday. 4. The nurse changes gloves when a possible contamination occurs. 5. The nurse, working alone, touches the inside of a sterile package with ungloved hands but does not discard the contents.
Which dietary teaching does the nurse include for a patient who is prescribed warfarin (Couma-din) on discharge?
a. "Weight loss diets such as the Atkins diet are OK while taking this drug." b. "Be sure to eat lots of green leafy vegetables for extra vitamin K." c. "Dietary changes do not affect the action of this drug." d. "Drinking alcoholic beverages can change the action of warfarin."