Which will improve a person's quality of life?
a. Encouraging the sick role
b. Changing the person's cultural beliefs and practices
c. Promoting the person's optimal level of functioning
d. Focusing on the person's disabilities
C
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The nursing assistant verbalizes to the psychiatric nurse that normal people don't have mental disorders. Which approach by the nurse would be best?
1. Instruct the nursing assistant that anyone can have a mental health problem. 2. Alert the nursing manager of the nursing assistant's remark. 3. Refer the nursing assistant back to the psychiatric orientation materials. 4. Ignore the comment; the nurse has no responsibility in this situation.
When obtaining blood samples from a central line, what action must the nurse take?
a. Discard the first sample in the amount indicated by agency protocol. b. Suggest that another venue be used. c. Withdraw a greater amount of blood than required, with a peripheral stick. d. Withdraw only the amount of blood required for the ordered tests, and document amount in nurse's notes according to agency policy.
A patient in the intensive care unit is receiving continuous venovenous hemofiltration for acute kidney injury. In order for the nurse to successfully provide the treatment for the patient, what needs to occur?
1. Infusion of a dialysate through the hemofilter 2. Creation of a fistula 3. Connection to a small pump 4. Successful placement of the catheter in an artery and a vein
The nurse is assessing a patient in the third trimester of pregnancy. What physiologic changes in the patient are expected? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply
1. The patient's chest circumference has increased by 5 cm during the pregnancy. 2. The patient has a narrowed subcostal angle. 3. The patient is using thoracic breathing. 4. The patient has a respiratory rate of 30. 5. The patient has a productive cough.