Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease in which the person has an overwhelming de-sire to take a drug
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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The home health nurse is visiting a client who is 2 weeks postoperative from a coronary artery bypass surgery. The client has lost 10 pounds, is continuing to experience pain, and is not eating. What should be the nurse's next action?
A) Examine the current interventions for pain relief. B) Refer the client to social services. C) Contact Meals on Wheels so that the client will eat. D) Revise the goals in the current plan of care.
The perinatal nurse observes Lindy, a 21-year-old, G1 TPAL 0000 woman who is entering the transition phase of labor. Lindy has been using a patterned breathing method to cope with the increasing strength of contractions
She complains of lightheadedness and tingling in her fingers. The perinatal nurse's most appropriate intervention is to: A) Assist Lindy back to bed and encourage her to lie on her left side B) Assist Lindy with putting her head between her knees C) Assist Lindy with cupping her hands and breathing into them D) Assist Lindy to breathe more slowly and to take a cleansing breath
While caring for an intensive care client, the nurse stops to conduct endotracheal suctioning after noticing the client had become restless. Afterward, the client is quiet and relaxed. This nurse based care on which of the following?
1. Phronesis 2. Techne or rational-technical thought 3. Client response 4. Practical knowledge
Peplau viewed nursing interventions as those that
A. Supported the implementation of physician medical orders. B. Reflected the wants and desires of the patient. C. Are soundly based on biomedical knowledge. D. Assisted patients in gaining interpersonal and intellectual competencies evolved through the nurse–patient relationship.