When a person accidentally touches a hot pan, their protective reflex causes them to immediately withdraw their hand from the hot pan. This protective reflex is known as:
A. transduction.
B. transmission.
C. perception.
D. modulation.
D
A protective reflex response also occurs with pain. When a person is injured, a noxious stimulus from the skin travels along sensory neurons to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord where it synap-ses with spinal motor neurons. The impulse continues to travel along the spinal nerve to the skel-etal muscle, causing the person to withdraw from the source of the pain.
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A patient who is terminally ill asks a nurse what is meant by a medical power of attorney. What is the nurse's best explanation of this written document?
a. "It allows another person to manage your financial affairs." b. "It allows the physician to make any medical decisions that need to be made for you." c. "It says you have given up all rights to make medical decisions for yourself." d. "It allows you to select someone to make health care decisions for you only if you are unable to do so for yourself."
With minor vessel injury, primary hemostasis is achieved:
a. after several minutes. b. with fibrin to solidify the platelet plug. c. usually within seconds. d. as a permanent solution.
A patient underwent a retinal detachment repair. The nurse receives the following order from the patient's physician: Keep patient in upright sitting position, with head over the bed table, until first dressing change
What should the nurse do? A) Call the physician and tell him the order is an error and must be reviewed. B) Follow the order because this position will help keep the retinal repair intact. C) Instruct the patient to do this while awake but sleep lying flat on the unoperated side. D) Assume she should change the dressing at bedtime, then allow the patient to lie flat.
Which component of nursing care is central to the care-based approach to bioethics?
A) provision of physical care B) relationships with healthcare providers C) nurse–patient relationship D) management of care