Name an approach to protect the public by ensuring a level of competence among health care professionals
What will be an ideal response?
Credentialing, licensure, accreditation, certification, charter, recognition, and academic degree
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The nurse has implemented several planned interventions to address the nursing diagnosis of acute pain. Which would be the next appropriate action?
a. Establish priorities. b. Identify expected outcomes. c. Evaluate the individual's condition, and compare actual outcomes with expected outcomes. d. Interpret data, and then identify clusters of cues and make inferences.
The nurse is assessing a client. Which data are considered data from a primary source?
a. The client's spouse tells the nurse the client seems upset. b. The client reports right lower quadrant pain. c. The physician describes the client as being overanxious. d. The lab report shows an elevated white cell count.
A home health nurse is visiting a patient who recently was hospitalized for repair of a fractured hip. The patient tells the nurse, "I have had a lot of pain in my abdomen." What type of assessment would the nurse conduct?
A) comprehensive B) ongoing partial C) focused D) emergency
Shortly after admission, M.M.'s call light comes on. When you respond to M.M.'s call light, you observe she is talking rapidly in Spanish and pointing to the bathroom
Her speech pattern indicates she is short of breath; she is having trouble completing a sentence without taking a labored breath. You help her use a bedpan and note that her skin feels clammy. While sitting on the bedpan, she vomits. On a scale of 0 to 10 (0 being no problem, 10 being a code-level emergency), how would you rate this situation, and why? Identify at least four actions you should take next, and state your rationale.