A resident of a long-term care facility receives 12.5 mg metoprolol (Lopressor) at 8 AM and 8 PM daily. Before administering this drug, the nurse should perform and document what assessments?
A) Oxygen saturation and respiratory rate
B) Heart rate and blood pressure
C) Level of consciousness and pain level
D) Temperature and respiratory rate
B
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The mother of a patient just admitted with a spinal cord injury is asking if the patient will be given steroids. What would be an accurate way for the nurse to explain the role of steroids in treating spinal cord injuries?
1. Steroids will make the patient feel better overall and retain muscle strength due to its "muscle-bulking" effects. 2. Steroids have few side effects and remove all symptoms while healing the problem. 3. Steroids can lead to "road-rage and anger outbursts" and therefore are avoided except under extreme emergencies. 4. Steroids limit spinal cord edema and ischemia if initiated within 3 hours of the trauma and given for 48 hours.
It appears that many nurses use avoidance to manage conflict. However, this does not generally resolve the problem because:
A. Avoiding will generate a win-win situa-tion. B. Avoiding a conflict ultimately causes ten-sion among team members and negatively influences the care environment. C. Most staff are not capable of fully avoid-ing or ignoring a problem and so they be-gin to compromise with the other group, which yields a win-win situation. D. Most problems that are ignored generally improve with time.
A family of a patient calls a nurse an "angel of mercy." The nurse interprets this to mean what about this stereotype?
A) Is fairly recent, originating with nurses from the Vietnam era B) Often associated with the belief of nursing being depicted as almost a saintly vocation C) Is the least common of all contemporary nursing stereotypes D) Depicts a nurse with little independent thought as an adoring backdrop to the omnipotent physician
Which of the following is an antiviral substance produced by virus-infected cells?
A. Acyclovir B. AZT C. Immunoglobin (antibodies) D. Interferon E. Histamine