The nurse is teaching the patient who will require long-term corticosteroid therapy how to reduce the risk of infection. What suggestions will the nurse include?
A) "Avoid large crowds of people tightly packed together."
B) "Avoid working in areas with other people."
C) "Avoid exercising to reduce risk of injury."
D) "Avoid touching other people who may carry germs."
A
Feedback:
With long-term therapy, the importance of avoiding exposure to infection—crowded areas, people with colds or the flu, activities associated with injury—should be stressed. If an injury or infection should occur, the patient should be encouraged to seek medical care. These patients do not need to avoid work, exercise, or touching others but they should use good hand hygiene to avoid infection from these sources.
You might also like to view...
A nurse is providing care to a client with arthritis in several large weight-bearing joints who is receiving NSAID therapy. Which nursing diagnosis would be most likely?
A) Risk for Unstable Blood Glucose Levels B) Impaired Gas Exchange C) Risk for Imbalanced Body Temperature D) Impaired Physical Mobility
A patient with a massive gastrointestinal bleed is diagnosed with a Mallory-Weiss tear. The nurse would anticipate which patient history?
1. Chronic alcohol ingestion 2. Ingestion of spicy foods 3. Aspirin use 4. 20 packs/year smoking history
Ali is a new graduate nurse and has been working on the nursing unit for six months. Ali has noticed that the nurses' station attempts to keep patient information confidential
Which of the following actions are not good practices for maintaining confidentiality? 1. Placing the patient chart upside down on the desk when not in use so the name is not revealed. 2. Speaking of patient's by room number, not by name. 3. Staying logged onto a computer to answer a call light. 4. Removing patient identifiers on a medication bottle and throwing it into the garbage can.
Which of the following is true of gluconeogenesis?
A. Gluconeogenesis refers to the synthesis of glucose from carbohydrates. B. Gluconeogenesis primarily occurs in the skeletal muscles. C. Gluconeogenesis leads to a decrease in plasma glucose concentration. D. Gluconeogenesis refers to the process of converting glycerol and amino acids into glucose.