A patient is admitted to an acute care facility with an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Which of the following nursing diagnoses would the nurse place as the least priority when planning care?
a. Ineffective Coping c. Ineffective Breathing Pattern
b. Risk for Infection d. Knowledge Deficit
A
One of the most common methods of selecting priorities is the use of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which requires that life-threatening diagnoses be given more urgency that non-life-threatening diagnoses. Once the basic physiological needs are met, the nurse can consider needs on the next level of the hierarchy and so on up the hierarchy until all of the patient's nursing diagnoses have been prioritized.
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1. Delayed growth and development 2. Impaired physical mobility 3. Self-care deficit 4. Impaired home maintenance
Critical thinking is a purposeful, goal-directed process of inquiry that uses available facts, principles, theories, and abstractions. Which statement best describes the processes that are accomplished through critical thinking?
a. Make inferences, solve problems, arrive at decisions. b. Persuade others, induce debate, use intuition. c. Make inferences, reduce fractions, make decisions. d. Solve problems, elevate issues, reflect actions.
When educating clients in the community on health promotion and prevention of disease, it is important to stress:
A) strenuous exercise is necessary for health. B) health education can benefit individuals and groups. C) the ideal location for education is in a health care institution. D) health promotion may not be possible for many of the older members of a community.
Identify a difference between muscarinic receptors and nicotinic-muscle (Nm) receptors.
A. Muscarinic receptors are cholinergic receptors, whereas Nm receptors are adrenergic receptors. B. Muscarinic receptors interact and bind with acetylcholine, whereas Nm receptors interact and bind with dopamine. C. Muscarinic receptors are blocked by the same class of drugs that block nicotinic-neural receptors, whereas Nm receptors are blocked by the same class of drugs that block alpha and beta receptors. D. Muscarinic receptors are located at parasympathetic postganglionic nerve endings, whereas Nm receptors are located at the neuromuscular junction of skeletal muscles.