A preschooler's mother asks you when she should tell him that she is pregnant. Your best answer would be
A) probably at the point she begins to look pregnant.
B) not until the baby is born, so that she can say whether it is a girl or a boy.
C) about 1 week before her due date, to reduce anxiety about waiting.
D) about 1 month before her due date, when she moves the preschooler out of his crib.
A
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An adult patient is scheduled for an upper GI series that will use a barium swallow. What teaching should the nurse include when the patient has completed the test?
A) Stool will be yellow for the first 24 hours post-procedure. B) The barium may cause diarrhea. C) Fluids must be increased to facilitate the evacuation of the stool. D) This series includes analysis of gastric secretions.
A patient has been scheduled for cardioversion in the treatment of a tachyarrhythmia but is unclear about the particulars of the procedure after signing the necessary informed consent. How can the nurse best explain this procedure to the patient?
A) "Cardioversion will essentially 'reset' the cells in your heart that control the electrical activity." B) "The essence of cardioversion is the destruction of some of the misfiring cells that are throwing off your heart's rhythm." C) "Cardioversion will provide an electrical signal that will boost the strength of your heart's electrical activity." D) "Cardioversion replaces your heart's self-conduction with an electrical signal that is provided artificially."
Although all areas of medicine, including pharmacology, have made great advances in the last century, the early roots of pharmacology still apply for the nurse and other health professionals. What were the early roots of pharmacology?
1. Applying products to relieve human suffering 2. Creating new drugs as quickly as possible 3. Finding medicinal alternatives to plants 4. Understanding how drugs take their effects
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