A nurse is assessing a pregnant woman who has come to the clinic. The woman reports that she feels some heaviness in her thighs since yesterday
The nurse suspects that the woman may be experiencing preterm labor based on which additional assessment findings?
A) Dull low backache
B) Malodorous vaginal discharge
C) Dysuria
D) Constipation
C
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The unit secretary is away from the unit desk, the phone rings, and the student nurse answers. The
caller is the health insurer for one of the inpatients, seeking information about the client's projected length of stay. How should the student nurse handle the request? a. Obtain the information from the client's medical record and relay it to the caller. b. Inform the caller that information about clients is confidential. c. Refer the request for information to the client's case manager. d. Refer the request to the unit psychiatrist.
Which of the following is not an aspect or dimension of the interpretive task?
A) The accuracy of the results B) The meaning of the results C) The statistical significance of the results D) The implications of the results
Which of the following is a priority nursing responsibility when preparing a patient for a percutaneous coronary intervention procedure?
1. assess for allergies to white fish 2. report a creatinine level of 2.6 mg/dl 3. monitor deep tendon reflexes 4. shave and prep the anterior chest wall
The nurse obtains an ECG monitor strip and makes the following analysis: no apparent P waves, ventricular rate 152 beats per minute and regular, and narrow QRS complex (0.08). The nurse interrupts this rhythm as:
1. Supraventricular tachycardia. 2. Sinus tachycardia. 3. Atrial fibrillation. 4. Ventricular fibrillation.