Illness and anxiety may affect an individual's behavior, such as his/her ability to cope with a stressful situation
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When planning the care for a client with a surgical wound, the nurse includes the goal:
1. Discharge to home as soon as possible. 2. Increase ambulation. 3. Regain intact skin. 4. Resume independent activities of daily living.
The nurse has several educational pamphlets for the patient about medications the patient is receiving. Prior to giving the patient these pamphlets, what is a primary assessment for the nurse?
1. Assess the patient's readiness to learn new information. 2. Assess the patient's religious attitudes toward medicine. 3. Assess the patient's reading level. 4. Assess the patient's cultural bias toward taking medicine.
The nurse is providing home care for a 6-year-old girl with multiple medical challenges. Which activities are part of the educator role of the nurse? Select all that apply
A) Arranging for a physical therapy session B) Teaching parents to administer albuterol C) Reminding a parent to give a full course of antibiotics D) Giving a DTaP vaccination at the proper interval E) Showing the parents how to perform proper hand hygiene F) Integrating research findings to establish evidence-based practice
The nurse is assessing a patient for nutritional status. In doing so, the nurse must
a. Choose a single objective tool that fits the patient's condition. b. Combine multiple objective measures with subjective measures. c. Forego the assessment in the presence of chronic disease. d. Use the Mini Nutritional Assessment for pediatric patients.