The nurse is trying to describe his professional duty to a high school student who is interested in nursing. Which statement would be included?
A) Placing client needs above one's own, even if nurse is now at increased personal risk
B) Placing employer's needs above one's own to care for the client
C) Ensuring the nurse is mentally and physically able to provide minimum safe care
D) Demonstrating a service orientation that entails altruism
C
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A pregnant woman is admitted to the CCU after a traumatic incident. The nurse is concerned that the patient may be having significant and unidentified blood loss. Which assessment findings could indicate significant blood loss?
A) Slightly decreased hemoglobin and hematocrit B) Urine output less than 40 mL/hr C) Elevated creatinine and urea clearance rates D) Slightly low serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen
A client arrives in the emergency department, pale and breathing rapidly. He immediately becomes unconscious and collapses to the floor. The nurse rapidly assesses the patient and decides the first series of actions that are called for
This scenario demonstrates: 1) Formal planning. 2) Informal planning. 3) Ongoing planning. 4) Initial planning.
The patient asks the nurse to irrigate both ear canals to improve hearing and comfort. The patient has bilateral brown ear drainage and a history of a right mastoidectomy and perforation of the left tympanic membrane
Which intervention should the nurse implement first? a. Inform the patient that the ears are in-fected. b. Perform an otoscopic examination of the canals. c. Collaborate with the audiologist about a hearing aid. d. Irrigate the ear canals with warm saline solution.