You are caring for a person who needs to be dressed after a bath. This person has arm weakness on the right side. How will this affect dressing this person?
What will be an ideal response?
Place the weak arm into the garment first and the strong arm last. This will create confidence in the person and make it less challenging to get the person dressed.
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A 45-year-old male patient is receiving interferon alfa-2a therapy for hepatitis C. The nurse should teach the patient that he may experience which of the following adverse effects?
A) A metallic taste in his mouth B) Flu-like symptoms C) Numbness and tingling in his extremities D) Reddish-tinged urine
What is the best rationale for health care providers receiving the influenza vaccination on a yearly basis?
A) To decreased nurses' susceptibility to health care-associated infections B) To decrease risk of transmission to vulnerable patients C) To eventually eradicate the influenza virus in the United States D) To prevent the emergence of drug-resistant strains of the influenza virus
A client who had a liver transplant 4 days ago has developed a fever and decreased biliary tube drainage. The nurse anticipates an order for the client to have a
a. liver biopsy. b. set of blood cultures. c. ultrasound. d. white blood cell count.
Florence Nightingale believed in structured and focused nursing education so much that the first Nightingale School of Nursing was opened at St. Thomas Hospital, London in
a. 1700 c. 1800 b. 1760 d. 1860