The nurse is administering Benadryl per standing order to treat which commonly occurring side effect during epidural infusion?
1. Pruritus
2. Hypotension
3. Nausea and vomiting
4. General sedation
1. Pruritus
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A postpartum woman is about to be dismissed with her baby when she reveals to the nurse that she is homeless and has nowhere to go. What action by the nurse is most appropriate?
A. Call Child Protective Services to come get the infant. B. Enlist social work to find a shelter that will take them. C. Remove the infant and take him to the newborn nursery. D. Tell the patient that the baby cannot be dismissed without a home.
In the cancer clinic where you work, you have to notify one of your patients that she needs to schedule an ultrasound because her routine mammogram showed several new areas of small calcifications
Her last mammogram was a year ago. She becomes very anxious upon hearing this news and wants to know what this means. a. Explain, in lay terms, why it is important to have further tests to confirm these calcifications and determine their cause. b. After hearing your explanation, the patient becomes even more anxious and is worried that she has cancer. Keeping in mind the other possible causes of calcifications, how would you attempt to allay her fears while remaining realistic? c. What other assessments or diagnostic tests would help determine the cause of the calcifications?
When planning nursing care for a patient with a stroke, the nurse should consider which primary goal of medical management?
1. Restoration of cerebral blood flow and limiting the size of the infarcted area of the brain 2. Keeping the blood pressure under control pharmacologically 3. Transferring the patient for rehabilitation as soon as medically stable 4. Reestablishing blood flow to the infarcted area surgically
When administering opioid drugs, the nurse should have an opioid antagonist readily available in case the client experiences which effects?
1. Nausea and vomiting 2. Hyperventilation 3. Hypoventilation 4. Hypovolemia