The nurse is assessing a pregnant patient who is 30 weeks' gestation. The patient reports feeling very warm during the day, although everyone else in her office says it is cold
Which is the best explanation for the discrepancy in temperature?
1) Viral infection
2) Increased basal metabolic rate
3) Bacterial infection
4) Increased blood pressure
ANS: 2
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1. Apathy2. Social withdrawal3. Anhedonia4. Auditory hallucinations 5. Delusions
There is an increased amount of health care information on the Internet. Not all of the websites are accurate or have updated information. Therefore, the health care consumer must do which of the following?
1. Discuss health care information found on the Internet with friends and neighbors. 2. Consider anything published online to be accurate. 3. Understand that any website published within the last five years to be up to date. 4. Evaluate the website's credibility through a careful analysis of the content's accuracy.
A nurse educator is explaining cognitive development in children to a group of nursing students, with the help of Piaget's theory of cognitive development
The nursing instructor asks the group of nursing students to identify the characteristics of cognition at the level of concrete operations. Based on this information, what would be the correct characteristics identified by the nursing students at the concrete operations level of Piaget's theory? 1 . Reversibility 2 . Seriation 3 . Conservation of matter 4 . Complex problem solving A) 1, 2, 3 B) 1, 2, 4 C) 1, 3, 4 D) 2, 3, 4
The best example of the impact of the women's movement on health care is:
1. Improvement in breast cancer survival rates 2. Insurance coverage for well-woman check-ups 3. Women subjects to be included in all appropriate health research projects 4. A single, teenage mother receiving Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefits