A young married woman tells you that she is going to have a tubal ligation because there are two people with mental retardation in her husband's family, and she is afraid this problem will surface in her children
Which of the following nursing diagnoses would best apply to this couple?
A) Spiritual distress related to inappropriate approach to the issue of having children
B) Sexual dysfunction related to the possibility of having a cognitively impaired child
C) Deficient knowledge of genetically inherited disorders
D) Anxiety related to an impending marriage
C
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The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative defined teamwork and collaboration within health care as having four key elements. Which of the following is not one of these key elements?
a. the whole is greater than the sum c. mutual respect b. fostering open communication d. shared decision making
A client with AIDS is experiencing fever with night sweats. A suggestion the nurse could make is to
a. drink all liquids in the morning. b. keep liquids at the bedside to drink. c. limit fluid intake after supper. d. take aspirin if awakened in the night.
Three weeks after being treated for strep throat, a patient comes into the clinic with signs of acute glomerulonephritis. What symptom will the nurse most likely find upon assessment of this patient?
1. periorbital edema 2. hunger 3. polyuria 4. polyphagia
A public health nurse working in the late 1800s would have most likely provided care to which of the following clients?
a. An 80-year-old man who had diabetes b. A 40-year-old woman who did not have health insurance c. A 20-year-old woman who was pregnant d. A 30-year-old man who had Down syndrome