The nurse is caring for a patient who has a tracheostomy with a one-way valve box. The nurse explains to the CNA that this valve allows the patient to carry out which function?
a. Drinking
b. Eating
c. Coughing
d. Talking
D
A one-way tracheostomy valve box can be fitted into the tube opening. It allows air to be inhaled through the tracheostomy opening, but the valve closes when the patient exhales. This diverts the exhaled air through the larynx and enables the patient to speak.
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An outpatient's daughter has been using a diary to track the appearance of her mother's decubitus ulcer when the daughter performs the daily dressing change
The patient has been newly consented for participation in the trial of a new product presumed to accelerate healing and prevent infection. The researcher instructs the daughter in use of the new product and the use of a scale for tracking the ulcer's healing. Scale items are change in total area (width times depth), drainage color, surrounding tissue integrity, pain, and smell. What are the advantages of using a scale instead of a diary? (Select all that apply.) a. It reduces all items to a Likert scale. b. It makes wound care easier. c. It forces a level of precision that may or may not be present in a diary. d. It produces numerical data that the researcher can easily analyze in order to provide evidence of difference between the new method and the old method. e. It makes sure that subjects all will have daily recordings of the variables the researcher intends to measure.
Which of the following laboratory studies or diagnostic procedures is most useful in identifying central diabetes insipidus (DI)?
a. Skull radiographs b. Serum glucose level c. Water deprivation test d. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) stimulation test
Good nutrition, a clean environment, and ventilation were hallmarks of which geographical area?
A) Greece B) East C) Palestine D) Assyria