A student nurse is spending clinical hours on the medical-surgical unit with an experienced nurse. The student is assessing a patient using indirect percussion. The student hears what sound while percussing the center of the patient's abdomen?
A) Resonance
B) Tympany
C) Dullness
D) Damping
B
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The newborn infant has oxygenation problems and a lack of subcutaneous fat. What should the nurse determine as the gestational age of this infant?
a. 20 to 37 completed weeks of pregnancy b. 38 to 41 completed weeks of pregnancy c. 14 to 36 completed weeks of pregnancy d. 42 or more completed weeks of pregnancy
A patient is admitted to the unit with recurrent upper airway edema. This is the fifth time in the past 3 months that the disorder has occurred in this patient
As the nurse caring for this patient you know that the patient may have a deficiency in what? A) Red blood cells B) C-1 esterase inhibitor C) Cholesterol D) Immunogammaglobulin A
The physician has ordered a urinalysis and a serum osmolality (concentration) determination. The nurse assesses that the kidneys are functioning appropriately if:
1. the serum osmolality is high and the urine osmolality is low. 2. the serum osmolality is low and the urine osmolality is high. 3. findings are incidental and unremarkable. 4. the osmolality of both the urine and the serum are high, or both are low.
A client who has had a full-thickness burn is being discharged from the hospital. Which information is most important for the nurse to provide before discharge?
a. How to maintain home smoke detectors b. Joining a community reintegration pro-gram c. Learning to perform dressing changes d. Options available for scar removal