The nurse is caring for a client suspected of contracting smallpox. The MOST important nursing intervention following this diagnosis is to:
a. notify the client's family members c. monitor oxygen levels
b. wash the vesicular rash d. airborne precautions
D
Nursing care must begin as soon as a diagnosis of smallpox is suspected. Standard, contact, and airborne precautions must be initiated for any client with a vesicular rash.
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a. knowledge. b. respect. c. sleep. d. spiritual support.
A patient is readmitted to the hospital 3 days after having been discharged. She presents with the same respiratory symptoms she presented with on her first admission. She is assigned to the same nurse
The first thing that nurse should do is 1. A comprehensive health assessment, because as much information as possible is needed about why the patient has returned to the hospital. 2. A focused assessment of her respiratory system, because that is the system with the recurring problem. 3. An initial head-to-toe shift assessment to establish a baseline for future assessments. 4. Any form of assessment, because the nurse already has plenty of recent assessments from the patient's previous hospital stay to use as baselines.
A nurse is presenting to a church group a program about domestic violence
During the presentation, a member of the audience asks the nurse to explain what "intergenerational transmission of violence" means because he has seen that phrase used in the media. Which of the following responses by the nurse would be most appropriate? A) "People who are violent are that way because of the various neurochemical imbalances in their brains." B) "People who grow up in violent home situations tend to be involved in domestic violence situations as an adult." C) "Recent research has identified a gene that is responsible for transmission of a risk for violent behavior that is passed on from generation to generation." D) "Domestic violence seems to skip every other generation when it is traced in families."
The patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) will
A. be mentally alert. B. have a shuffling gait. C. develop hemiplegia. D. live a long life.