The home care nurse has been seeing a 50-year-old client postsurgery to care for a wound. Once the wound is healed, the nurse will discharge the client from the home care agency. The nurse knows discharge teaching
A) starts 2 weeks prior to discharge.
B) is based on the recovery process.
C) begins at admission.
D) cannot be anticipated until the wound is healed.
C
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Choose the situation in which humor might be an effective method to communicate with an upset or angry person
1. A mother bringing her daughter to the emergency department is upset about the wait time to be seen. 2. A nurse angrily calls the lab complaining that the client?s morning labs have not been drawn. 3. A pharmacist complains about discrepancies on the narcotic record for the third week in a row. 4. The mother of a child with a white count of 3000 cells/mcL is upset when a nurse enters with no mask.
What is the best description of the Nursing Process? The Nursing Process is:
a. A way to create nursing knowledge for use in practice b. A systematic view of a specific phenomenon in nursing c. A linear process for providing nursing care d. A systematic process for the delivery of nursing care
When evaluating the client's progress, the nurse knows that four of the five fetal factors that interact to regulate the heart rate are (select all that apply):
a. baroreceptors. b. adrenal glands. c. chemoreceptors. d. uterine activity. e. autonomic nervous system.
Ordered: 10,000 units of Heparin in 500 mL D5W infusing at 20 mL/h. The hourly heparin dosage is
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