When teaching a high school boys' health class, which information about latex condoms is most important for the nurse to include?
a. Use petroleum jelly as a lubricant.
b. Leave room at the condom tip for a reser-voir for semen.
c. Discard condoms after three uses.
d. Apply the condom immediately before ejaculation.
B
Leaving room at the tip of a condom guards against spillage of semen. Petroleum jelly deteri-orates latex condoms. Only water-based lubricants should be used. Condoms should be applied only one time. A condom should be applied with erection; sperm is secreted in pre-ejaculate.
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a. The client is confused and combative. He insists that no one can stop him from leaving. The nurse restrains him without a physician's order, then seeks the order. b. The client has been "pesky," seeking the attention of nurses in the nurses' station much of the day. Now the nurse escorts him to his room and tells him to stay there or he'll be put into seclusion. c. A psychotic client, admitted as an involuntary patient, runs out of the psychiatric unit. The nurse runs after him and succeeds in talking the client into returning to the unit. d. A client, hospitalized as an involuntary admission, attempts to leave the unit. The nurse calls the security team and, acting on established protocol, they prevent him from leaving.
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