The parents of a teenager who is being maintained on life support after a motorcycle crash tell the nurse, "We would like to donate his organs if he dies." What is the nurse's role in organ donation?
A) Realize that it is a legal responsibility to call the coroner.
B) Review options and provide consent forms to the family.
C) Make arrangements for protocols for retrieving the organs.
D) None; organ donation is a physician's responsibility.
B
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a. Assist client into a knee-chest position or modified Sims' position. b. Attempt to replace the cord into the uterus with a sterile gloved hand. c. Cover the cord with a sterile towel, and start oxygen via mask at 10 L per minute. d. Insert two fingers of a sterile gloved hand into the vagina, and put pressure on the presenting part to lift it off the cord.
The nurse is talking with the patient when the monitor alarms and shows a wavy baseline without a PQRST complex. The nurse should:
a. defibrillate the patient immediately. b. initiate basic life support. c. initiate advanced life support. d. assess the patient and the electrical leads.
A young mother has detected a lump in her breast, and because she lives at the poverty level, she is covered under Medicaid. This individual:
a. is more likely to participate in mammography screening than are individuals covered by private insurance. b. has designated primary care and a specialist as sources of care. c. will more likely wait to seek care and will require hospitalization for a mastectomy, which could have been avoided if care had been sought earlier. d. has decreased access to health care when compared with the uninsured.
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