Nurse Licensure ________________ is the term used to describe interstate licensing of nurses
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One of the functions of nursing care of the terminally ill is to support the patient and his or her family as they come to terms with the diagnosis and progression of the disease process
How should nurses support patients and their families during this process? Select all that apply. A) Describe their personal experiences in dealing with end-of-life issues. B) Encourage the patient and family to "keep fighting" as a cure may come. C) Try to appreciate and understand the illness from the patient's perspective. D) Assist patients with performing a life review. E) Provide interventions that facilitate end-of-life closure.
The nurse is assessing a patient demonstrating a decrease in oxygen consumption. Which of the following will the nurse most likely assess in this patient?
1. respiratory rate 8 per minute 2. respiratory rate 26 per minute 3. temperature 102 degrees Fahrenheit 4. restlessness and fidgeting
A licensed practical/vocational nurse (LP/VN) is caring for a patient as a private duty nurse in the patient's home. The patient needs to be hospitalized. The private duty nurse should best serve the patient in this situation by:
A) accompanying the patient to the hospital and staying with the patient acting as the patient's advocate and abiding by the hospital guidelines. B) going to the patient's home and setting up anticipated equipment and supplies may need once the patient is discharged from the hospital. C) caring for the patient in the hospital taking on all duties as the primary care nurse and charting in the electronic medical record. D) giving report to the nurse caring for the patient now in the hospital, and then the private duty nurse is not needed until the patient is discharged.
A patient should not take cimetidine within 2 hours of taking cobalamin to treat his or her anemia because:
A. cimetidine decreases gastric acid so that cobalamin cannot combine with available gastric intrinsic factor, impairing but not totally inhibiting the absorption of cobalamin. B. cimetidine suppresses the bone marrow and interferes with red blood cell maturation so that cobalamin cannot function in these cells. C. cimetidine stops the production of gastric acid so that cobalamin cannot combine with available gastric intrinsic factor, totally inhibiting the absorption of cobalamin. D. None of these are correct.