The perinatal nurse encourages Colleen, who has just been discharged from the hospital for intravenous therapy for severe nausea and vomiting, to ensure that she __________ often, eats frequent, __________ meals, and avoids __________ odors
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
ANS: rests; small; cooking
The nurse should counsel the woman with nausea and vomiting to avoid foods and sensory stimuli that provoke symptoms (i.e., some women become nauseous when they smell certain foods being prepared) and also to eat small, frequent meals of dry, bland foods and include high-protein snacks in their diet.
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A nurse emphasizes a study that focused on the amount of time children spend using various media, such as TV, video games, and computers and stated that by cutting this time by ____%, it would have a significant impact on increasing physical activity
ANS:
The nurse is teaching a caregivers' support group for caretakers of elderly patients. The focus is medication compliance. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the caregivers make which response?
1. "We should crush their medicine and put it in applesauce so they will swallow it." 2. "We should use a medication management box so they won't forget to take it." 3. "We should ask the doctor if all the medication is really necessary." 4. "We should give them more education about the medicine so they will take it."
The nurse monitors the blood glucose levels of a patient being treated with insulin for diabetic ketoacidosis to ensure glucose levels decline at the rate of 50-70 mg/dL/hour because:
1. When blood glucose drops rapidly fluids shift out of the cell, which increases dehydration, causing severe hypovolemic shock. 2. When blood glucose drops rapidly severe damage to the brain results from metabolic alkalosis. 3. A rapid drop in blood glucose can result in hypokalemia, causing life-threatening arrhythmias. 4. A rapid drop in blood glucose can result in formation of thromboses as a result of dehydration.
When providing support and education to the family of a child who is diagnosed with a serious genetic abnormality, what would be the priority? When providing support and education to the family of a child who is diagnosed with a serious genetic abnormality, what would be the priority?