The nurse instructing a patient in deep breathing and coughing directs the patient to (place the options in the appropriate sequence):
1. place the hand on the abdomen to check rise and fall.
2. inhale through the nose, pause 1 to 3 seconds, and then exhale.
3. assume a high Fowler's position.
4. take 4 to 6 deep breaths.
5. cough deeply.
3, 1, 2, 4, 5
The exercise is done in a sequence to ensure open bronchioles and good deep cough.
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1. reliability. 2. validity. 3. sampling. 4. efficacy.
The pediatric nurse caring for cardiac patients teaches the student nurse that a stent may be placed in a vessel as an initial treatment and narrow vessels or valves may be opened or dilated with a balloon angioplasty or valvuloplasty as a long-term
treatment. A) True B) False
A nurse is caring for a Buddhist patient who has mentioned that his daily periods of meditation are very important to him. How should the nurse respond?
A. Get more information from him about what this means: When does he meditate and for how long, and does he need anything specific to facilitate his practice? B. Tell him you'll need to speak with the physician to see if the hospital would be able to accommodate his meditation time. C. Smile and tell him that's fine. D. Apologize that the medical staff needs to be able to have access to him at all times and that you couldn't guarantee private time to meditate.