Blair, a student nurse, is assisting a nurse with admitting a 73-year-old woman with a fractured ulna and radius to the trauma unit of the hospital. The patient's daughter and son-in-law are with her
Blair notices that the patient does not make eye contact when answering questions and she feels that something is not right about the situation. This can best be explained by which of the following? A. Intuition
B. Critical thinking
C. Nursing process
D. Reflection
A
Intuition is the inner sensing or "gut feeling" that something is so. For example, a nurse walks into a patient's room and, by looking at the patient's appearance without the benefit of a thorough assessment, senses that he or she has worsened physically. Intuition is a common experience that many people have when interacting with their environments.
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A pregnant woman at 25 weeks of gestation tells the nurse that she dropped a pan last week and her baby jumped at the noise. Which response by the nurse is most accurate?
a. "That must have been a coincidence; babies can't respond like that." b. "The fetus is demonstrating the aural reflex." c. "Babies respond to sound starting at about 24 weeks of gestation." d. "Let me know if it happens again; we need to report that to your midwife."
What should the nurse include when counseling potential parents about genetic disorders?
A) Environmental influences may affect multifactorial inheritance. B) Genetic disorders primarily follow Mendelian laws of inheritance. C) All genetic disorders involve a similar number of abnormal chromosomes. D) The absence of genetic disorders in both families eliminates the possibility of having a child with a genetic disorder.
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A) A 10-year-old patient with a BP of 103/62 B) A 7-year-old patient with a sinus dysrhythmia C) A 77-year-old patient with a resting heart rate of 69 beats/min D) An 82-year-old patient with a temperature of 37.2°C