Suzanne complains of nausea and is vomiting frequently after she returns to the critical care unit from laparoscopic removal of her gallbladder. The critical care nurse is cognizant that a potential problem with nausea and vomiting is
A) pain.
B) hypoxemia.
C) hypotension.
D) aspiration.
D
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1. Maternity blues (lack of concentration, agitation, guilt, and an abnormal attitude toward bodily functions) 2. Postpartum depression (irritability, loss of libido, sleep disturbances, expresses concern about inability to care for baby) 3. Postpartum melancholia (overprotection of infant, expresses concern about inability to care for baby, mysophobia) 4. Postpartum depressive psychosis (transient depressed mood, agitation, abnormal fear of child abduction, suicidal ideations)
vThe client asks the nurse to leave her sleeping pill at the bedside because she wants to read for a few more minutes before going to sleep. The most appropriate action for the nurse to take would be to:
a. leave the pill as requested. b. tell the client to call the nurse when she is ready for her medication. c. tell the client she can take it now or not at all as this is when it is ordered. d. leave the pill as requested and check back in half an hour to be sure the client took the medication.
Which of the following are operational definitions? (Select all that apply.)
a. Length of smoking cessation is the subject's statement of how long it has been since the subject last smoked tobacco. b. Pain is whatever the patient says it is, whenever the patient says it is (Margo McCaffrey). c. Imagination is the ability to see what will be, not what is. d. Startle is the distance the research subject moves when a puppet tarantula is dropped into his field of view, in front of a computer screen. e. Nausea is the number the subject provides, on a 0- to 10-point numerical scale, in response to being asked how nauseated the subject is.
A patient with hemophilia A is scheduled for replacement therapy. Which drug would the nurse anticipate administering?
1. Tranexamic acid 2. Aminocaproic acid 3. Factor IX 4. Factor VIII