The chief nursing officer has been developing her portfolio for years. What is the chief nursing officer modeling?
a. Her clinical expertise
b. Affection for tradition
c. Her employability
d. Her busy professional life
ANS: C
Being employed is no longer sufficient; we must be employable. A portfolio outlines achievements and experiences that communicate employability.
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a. Use of anticholinergic agents b. Addition of rational emotive therapy to the treatment plan c. Discontinuance of the tranquilizers d. Use of muscle relaxant agents
An elderly client has been experiencing urinary hesitancy and this has resulted in the client's bladder become overdistended with urine. What intervention should the nurse attempt before resorting to the insertion of a urinary catheter?
A) Increase the client's intake of low-pH fluids in order to stimulate bladder function. B) Encourage the client to perform some vigorous exercise. C) Run water from the tap in the client's room to stimulate the urge to void. D) Position the client in a side-lying position.
Tests for clonus are most commonly carried out on the
a. lower extremities. c. abdomen. b. upper extremities. d. neck.
An institutional health care provider is preparing to do a retrospective database analysis to deter-mine the relationships between treatment options, outcomes, and costs of various interventions used to treat arthritis
Which factor is an advantage of this type of analysis? a. Changes in policy, circumstances, or actual treatment methods over time may af-fect results. b. It relies on the use of accurate current procedural terminology (CPT). c. Data analysis can be technically challenging owing to large unrelated data sets. d. Data are readily available, and they reflect the institution's historical experience.