State the major side effects of sex hormone therapy.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Estrogen side effects include weight gain, breast and pelvic discomfort, vaginal discharge, and skin pigmentation. Progesterone side effects include nausea, headaches, and dizziness. Testosterone side effects include deepening voice and increased body hair.
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Which intervention will be most appropriate to meet this patient's wishes? a. Establish around-the-clock dosing for pain medications with additional doses for breakthrough pain. b. Assist the patient to reminisce and review his life, spending as much time as possible with loved ones. c. Use therapeutic touch, guided imagery, and soft music to put the patient at ease and relieve anxiety. d. Encourage the patient to participate in prayer and meditation along with preferred religious practices.
A parent asks the nurse what would be the first indication that acute glomerulonephritis was improving. What would be the nurse's best response?
a. Blood pressure will stabilize. b. Your child will have more energy. c. Urine will be free of protein. d. Urine output will increase.
The nurse is planning to assess the blood pressure of a patient with a BMI of 40
Which approaches will the nurse use to correctly obtain this patient's blood pressure? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply. 1. Use a cuff with a bladder that is 80% of the patient's arm circumference. 2. Use a thigh cuff. 3. Use an adult cuff on the patient's forearm. 4. Assess the blood pressure using the same approach each time. 5. Use an adult cuff on the patient's thigh.
As a community health nurse, you overhear a colleague say, "I don't understand why the Yang's take their young teenage daughters to the Hmong New Year celebration and have them play these match-making games
The girls meet boys every day at school and they are too young to be looking for husbands." Which of the following would be the most appropriate response? A) "The Yang's are very different from us; maybe in time we can convince them that their practices are not right." B) "Every culture has its differences; I think it is valuable that the Yang's are keeping their cultural practices alive." C) "I know what you mean, I was thinking the same thing. You wouldn't catch me doing something similar with my teens." D) "I feel sorry for those girls; they must feel funny in those cultural costumes. Let's talk to the parents and tell them how teens in America feel about such things."