The home care nurse is making an initial visit to a client just discharged after admission for severe exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The nurse observes wall-to-wall stacks of old newspapers and magazines in every room, with pathways that just allow passage from one room to another. What is the priority nursing action?
a. Call the mobile community mental health crisis unit
b. Contact a service to remove the newspapers and magazines
c. Reconcile the client's discharge medications
d. Teach the safe use of oxygen
Ans: d. Teach the safe use of oxygen
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The nurse plans assignments for the staff in an ambulatory surgery center. Which assignment can the nurse delegate to nursing assistive personnel (NAP)?
a. Bring the preoperative medications pre-pared by the nurse to the patient. b. Administer a preoperative enema to the patient. c. Instruct the patient to arrange for a ride home and a companion after surgery. d. Reinforce preoperative teaching related to the patient's postoperative diet.
The concepts that are core to nursing are person, environment, health, and nurse; these are known as the nursing
a. metaparadigm b. model c. proposition d. theory
The advanced-practice nurse is preparing to examine a patient's prostate gland. Before the exam, what does the nurse tell the patient?
A.) He mat feel the urge to defecate or faint as the prostate is palpated B.) He should lie supine with knees bent in a fully flexed position C.) The examination is very painful, but it lasts just a few seconds D.) The gland will be massaged to obtain a fluid sample for possible prostatitis