The nurse initiating a therapeutic relationship with a client should explain the purpose, which is to:
A) Alleviate stressors in life
B) Become stabilized on medications
C) Establish relationships
D) Facilitate a positive change
D
Feedback: The client who has unmet or unsatisfactorily met needs seeks to make changes; the nurse facilitates this desire to change. The focus of the therapeutic relationship is on the needs of the client, not the nurse.
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1. OA. 2. corns on the affected toes. 3. capillary refill. 4. pedal pulses.
Outline the guidelines for the administration of sustained-release tablets and capsules.
What will be an ideal response?
The nursing students are learning about the half-life of drugs. A student asks the instructor to explain half-life. What is the instructor's best response?
A) Half-life of a drug is the time it takes for the amount of drug in the body to decrease to half of the peak level it previously achieved. B) Half-life is the amount of time it takes for the drug to be metabolized by the body. C) Half-life is the amount of time it takes for half of the drug to reach peak level in the body. D) Half-life of a drug is the time it takes for the drug to reach half its potential peak level in the body.
The home health nurse cautions a pregnant patient who ingests alcohol or illicit drugs that she places herself at risk and endangers her fetus, because alcohol and drugs:
a. are all absorbed into the bloodstream. b. affect the mother. c. cross the placental barrier. d. increase the heart rate.