A patient is hospitalized with blunt trauma to the left eye. To best minimize eye movement, what should the nurse do?
A. Place the patient in a side-lying position, with the eye up.
B. Patch the unaffected eye.
C. Patch or provide an eye shield for both eyes.
D. Keep the bed position flat.
Answer: C
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A. Colonoscopy B. Flat plate of the abdomen C. Gastric biopsy D. Nuclear medicine scan
A patient is being admitted to the intensive care unit after being resuscitated in the emergency department. The patient is being mechanically ventilated. Which information provided by the transferring nurse would the nurse evaluate as increasing this patient's risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)?
1. "The patient is intubated nasally." 2. "The patient arrested after having a myocardial infarction." 3. "The patient required placement of a nasogastric tube to relieve persistent gastric distention." 4. "The patient's home medications include a proton pump inhibitor." 5. "The patient has a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)."
A home health client participates in cultural health practices that the nurse feels might be detrimental to his health. In order to remain attentive to cultural sensitivity and provide appropriate cultural nursing care, the nurse should:
A) Try to negotiate with the client by exploring his views and then providing relevant scientific information. B) Validate the client's practices and understand that for this client, it might be beneficial to continue with his preferences. C) Have the client's physician explain the care to the client in a firm but gentle manner. D) Explain the right and wrong of the client's treatment and try to persuade him to follow the scientific perspective.
Glucose is transferred across the placenta via _____ _____.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).