Which finding in the patient's health history increases the risk for developing breast cancer?
1) Late menarche
2) Early menopause
3) Endometrial cancer
4) Breastfeeding
ANS: 3
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The nurse is on a committee to reduce medication errors in a large health care facility. What is a recommendation the nurse proposes that will most likely help to reduce medication errors?
1. Train medication technicians to administer medications. 2. Use robots to prepare all medications for administration by the nurse. 3. Use automated, computerized cabinets on all nursing units. 4. Designate nurses whose only function is to administer medication.
Since the Intervention Wheel was first published in 1998, it has:
a. Guided national policy b. Been used as a tool in deciding licensure issues for State Boards of Nursing c. Been incorporated into the public health curricula of many nursing programs d. Gained wide acceptance internationally
A nurse is providing discharge teaching for a patient with a fractured humerus. The patient is going home with hydrocodone. Which important patient education does the nurse provide?
a. "You need to drink plenty of fluids and eat a diet high in fiber." b. "Narcotics can be addictive, so do not take them unless you are in severe pain." c. "Be sure to eat a meal high in fat before taking the medication, to avoid a stomach ulcer." d. "As your pain severity lessens, you will begin to give yourself once-daily intramuscular injections."
A patient is having a procedure that involves cutting through the skin to diagnose a mass located in the left breast. For which type of biopsy should the nurse plan care for this patient?
A. Incisional B. Needle core C. Fine-needle D. Excisional