A patient is admitted with infectious diarrhe
a. What action by the nurse is best?
a. Place the patient in contact precautions.
b. Place the patient on droplet precautions.
c. Use standard precautions to care for the patient.
d. Prepare staff to take prophylactic antibio-tics.
A
Contact precautions should be used when caring for a patient with infectious diarrhea. The other options are not warranted.
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1. Anemia 2. Asthma 3. Cor pulmonale 4. Left ventricular hypertrophy
Which of the following is a true statement regarding nursing research?
a. Descriptive and correlational research methods are most successful in addressing the research questions nurses typically have. b. Nurses do not typically attempt to conduct experimental research because it is beyond their level of expertise. c. Nurses have successfully used a variety of designs in research studies because there are many types of questions to be answered. d. The most common type of research used by nurse researchers is ethnographic research because it studies the lived experience of their patients.
Which physical assessment technique would best determine chest excursion?
A) Inspection B) Palpation C) Percussion D) Auscultation
When sorting soiled laundry, the home care assistant should wear ____________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).