What should be the first intervention when a nurse finds that a patient has fallen?
a. Ask the patient to stand up.
b. Document the fall according to agency policy.
c. Remove or correct the cause of the fall.
d. Assess the circumstances of the fall and any injuries sustained.
D
The first implementation should be to assess what happened, determine whether any injuries have occurred, and then document and correct the cause.
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a. Ask the surgeon to talk to the patient. b. Give the patient a sedative for relaxation. c. Encourage visitors to distract the patient. d. Reassure the patient that everything will be all right.
A nurse has been caring for a 49-year-old man who was hospitalized with recurrent ventricular fibrillation and received IV amiodarone
The man is now scheduled to be discharged on oral amiodarone, and the nurse has just completed discharge instructions. Which of the following statements made by the patient indicates that further instruction is necessary? A) "I will notify my physician if I develop a cough and have difficulty breathing." B) "I am going on a cruise next week and plan to just lie in the sun all day and relax." C) "I plan to see my ophthalmologist in 2 weeks." D) "It is important for me to have my thyroid gland checked regularly."
The nurse was caring for a client who had a significant cardiac history. The client died from a myocardial infarction during a hurricane. This is an example of what type of disaster death?
1. Direct. 2. Indirect. 3. Disaster-related natural. 4. Coincidental.
There are four levels of measurement. What is nominal measurement?
A) Classification of characteristics into mutually exclusive categories B) Ranking of objects based on their relative standing on an attribute C) Indicating not only the ranking of objects but the amount of distance between them D) Distinguished from interval measurement by having a rational zero point