A 42-year-old patient seeks medical attention for memory changes and changes in facial and body movements. For which disorder should the nurse assess the patient?
1. Huntington disease
2. Parkinson disease
3. Traumatic brain injury
4. Human Immunodeficiency Virus
1. Huntington disease
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Your patient complains of painful swelling beside her nose near her right inner canthus. You examine your patient for signs or symptoms that typically occur with obstruction of the lacrimal sac, which include which of the following?
a. edema of the left eyelid c. excessive tearing of her right eye b. entropion d. uveitis
A patient returns to your unit after a neck dissection. The surgeon placed a Jackson Pratt drain in the wound. When assessing the wound drainage over the first 24 postoperative hours you would notify the physician immediately for what?
A) Blood clots in the drainage B) 300 cc. of milky or cloudy drainage C) Spots of drainage on the dressings surrounding the drain D) 120 cc. of serosanguinous drainage
The nurse is performing a physical assessment of a client to determine if pneumothorax is present following a motor vehicle accident. Which of the following signs would indicate this alteration?
A) Severe dyspnea B) Symmetrical chest C) Dull, radiating chest pain D) Rise in blood pressure
When assessing drug use patterns of a client, which of the following questions should the nurse ask?
1. Where was the drug acquired? 2. Who gave it? 3. What was taken? 4. How often?