A client who has a major depressive episode tells the nurse that for the last 2 weeks he has been hearing voices and at times thinks that someone is following him. The nurse determines that the most likely diagnosis is:
A) Paranoid schizophrenia.
B) Undifferentiated schizophrenia.
C) Brief psychotic disorder.
D) Schizoaffective disorder.
D
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A patient is brought to the emergency department with injuries sustained in a gang fight. The patient's blood pressure is 80/50 mmHg with a pulse of 120 and thready
The nurse will prepare the patient for which test to provide the fastest diagnostic information? 1. Sonogram 2. Complete blood count 3. Urinalysis 4. Serum electrolyte levels
The nurses on your unit want to change the patient care delivery model from functional nursing to primary care nursing. They are concerned about the disadvantages of functional nursing, which include which of the following? Select all that apply
a. Patients feel disjointed. b. Care can be delivered to a large number of patients. c. LPNs are forced to work outside their scope of practice. d. Patients become the sum of the tasks rather than an integrated whole. e. Other types of health care workers are used when there is a shortage of RNs. f. Technical, rather than professional, nursing care often results.
When considering white blood cell differentials, acute inflammatory reactions are related to elevations of which leukocyte?
a. Monocytes b. Eosinophils c. Neutrophils d. Basophils
The wife of a client with angina pectoris calls the health care provider's office and reports to the nurse that her husband is experiencing chest pain and has taken 2 sublingual nitroglycerin tablets 5 minutes apart, with no relief. The nurse tells the client's wife to:
A. Have her husband rest and, if no relief is obtained, call back B. Discuss the situation with the doctor, who will call her as soon as he gets into the office C. Call Emergency Medical Services to take her husband to the emergency department (ED) immediately D. Give her husband a third tablet and, if no relief is obtained, call an ambulance to have him transported to the ED