The nurse is preparing to calculate a patient's body mass index. What measurements does the nurse need to make this calculation?
a. Height and weight
b. Waist and hip measurements
c. Weight and waist measurement
d. Waist measurement and height
ANS: A
Height and weight are used to calculate body mass index. B. Waist and hip measurements are used to calculate waist-to-hip ratio. C. D. There are no calculations that use weight and waist measurement or waist measurement and height.
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A) Myocardial infarction B) Intermittent claudication C) Hypertension D) Angina pectoris
What is the purpose of a nurse gathering client information?
1. It enables the nurse to modify behaviors related to personality disorders. 2. It enables the nurse to make sound clinical judgments and plan appropriate care. 3. It enables the nurse to prescribe the appropriate medications. 4. It enables the nurse to assign the appropriate Axis I diagnosis.
The nurse educator is presenting a lecture regarding advocacy in nursing. Which interventions will the nurse include as they exemplify client advocacy?
Select all that apply. A) Educating clients and their families about their legal rights B) Ensuring that clients have the necessary information to make an informed decision or give informed consent C) Speaking out for safe practice conditions when threatened by budget cutbacks D) Supporting medical authority E) Questioning other healthcare professionals when they provide care that is based on stereotypic ideas rather than on an assessment of the individual client's needs
A graduate nurse wants to make the transition from being a student to employee a smooth one on a busy geriatric rehabilitation unit. The nurse should take which action to be more successful? Select all that apply
A) Ask other nurses to perform some of the duties initially to lighten the workload, and gradually take on more of the assignment if there is time. B) Find out before beginning the job the patient population's most frequent medical diagnoses and study the nursing care needed. C) Ask an experienced nurse on the unit for suggestions on how to best organize care for his or her assignment. D) Clock out at the end of the shift on time and continue to work to catch up with tasks not completed. E) If the nurse is presented with a medical diagnosis that is unfamiliar, look it up to learn how to care for the patient and ask for help as needed.