A patient is being treated in hospital for St. Louis encephalitis. When planning this patient's care, the nurse should be aware that this specific variant of encephalitis creates a potential for what nursing diagnosis?
A) Excess fluid volume
B) Risk for deficient fluid volume
C) Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
D) Risk for unstable blood glucose
A
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Which of the following best describes what happens when persons who work full-time and receive the typical minimum wage seek an apartment?
a. Few clean and decent low-rent apartments exist. b. People do not like to rent to low-income persons. c. To afford housing, they need a job that pays at least three times minimum wage. d. There are not many trailer parks near their employment.
Which of the following is correct regarding pursuers of excellence?
a. value themselves for what they do b. correct mistakes, then learn from them c. learn from failure d. enjoy meeting high standards within reach
Florence Nightingale is acknowledged as one of the individuals who contributed most significantly to the development of nursing as a profession. What other phenomenon contributed most to this development?
A) Labor-saving technology that freed many women from working in the home B) The social recognition of the importance of public funding for the treatment of disease C) Increased understanding of the pathophysiology of illness and the importance of infection control D) The high mortality rates that existed during times of war
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) are
A. viruses. B. easily eradicated. C. fungi. D. drug-resistant bacteria.