What is the average height that the IV bag is hung above the level of the patient's heart?
What will be an ideal response?
3 feet
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The three-year-old child with cystic fibrosis has just been discharged from the hospital following a two-week stay due to a respiratory infection. The child has a post-discharge office visit the next day
During the office visit, the mother mentions that the child was toilet trained before hospitalization but now is having accidents. Which response by the nurse would be most appropriate? 1. "This is probably a reaction to the antibiotics and will disappear when the antibiotics are finished." 2. "Urinary incontinence is a common symptom of progression of cystic fibrosis. Be sure to notify the physician of this change." 3. "The child may have a urinary tract infection and needs to be evaluated." 4. "Children often regress after hospitalization. Be patient and remind him to go to the bathroom frequently."
A patient returns to your unit after a neck dissection. The surgeon placed a Jackson Pratt drain in the wound. When assessing the wound drainage over the first 24 postoperative hours you would notify the physician immediately for what?
A) Blood clots in the drainage B) 300 cc. of milky or cloudy drainage C) Spots of drainage on the dressings surrounding the drain D) 120 cc. of serosanguinous drainage
The nurse identifyies evidence summaries for evidence-based practice. Which of the following are references to types of evidence summaries? (Select all that apply.)
1. Review of literature 2. Evidence synthesis 3. Authentication review 4. Systematic reviews 5. Integrative reviews 6. Substantiation evidence
The nurse who wants to effectively care for people from other cultures needs to examine his or her own:
a. language skills c. cultural ability b. ethnocentrism d. access to the culture