What is the priority nursing diagnosis for a client with HIV/AIDS who has severe oral candidiasis?
A. Risk for Infection
B. Disturbed Body Image
C. Risk for Imbalanced Nutrition
D. Risk for Impaired Skin Integrity
C
Oral candidiasis not only makes food taste "funny" but can be painful and make swallowing dif-ficult. The client may not even want to drink liquids. Thus, the client is at high risk for nutritional deficiency and dehydration.
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An infection control nurse is presenting an inservice reviewing the immune response. The nurse describes the clumping effect that occurs when an antibody acts like a cross-link between two antigens. What process is the nurse explaining?
A) Agglutination B) Cellular immune response C) Humoral response D) Phagocytic immune response
A written listing of how a health care agency compares with other agencies on certain key indicators of quality, such as morbidity and mortality measures, client satisfaction, and cost of care, is called a(n):
a. Agency report card b. Alliance c. Integrated system d. Joint practice
Which goal related to achieving therapeutic effects from mannitol would a nurse include in the plan of care?
1. Decrease intracranial pressure 2. Decrease excretion of therapeutic medications 3. Increase urine osmolality 4. Decrease serum osmolality
When researchers discussed cheating in school as compared with cheating in the clinical area with students, a specific trend was noted. What did researchers discover most often when discussing cheating with students?
A) Students did not see cheating in school as a concern. B) Students believed the faculty didn't care as long as the assignments were completed. C) Students viewed clinical cheating as probably unethical and should be stopped. D) Students viewed cheating in varying degrees of seriousness.