The nurse is caring for a 4-year-old boy with infectious conjunctivitis. Which of the following interventions is least likely to be in the nurse's plan of care?
A) Rinsing the eye with cool water
B) Educating the family about the disease
C) Encouraging frequent hand washing
D) Promoting eye safety
D
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While obtaining a health history, a patient tells the nurse that he has frequent nosebleeds and asks the best way to get them to stop. What would be the nurse's best response?
a. "While sitting up, place a cold compress over your nose." b. "Sit up with your head tilted forward and pinch your nose." c. "Just allow the bleeding to stop on its own, but don't blow your nose." d. "Lie on your back with your head tilted back and pinch your nose."
Which of the following statements best summarizes the view of nurses as seen in novels over the past 100 years?
a. Nurses are and have always been seen as very strong intelligent women. b. For the past 50 years, nurses were primarily viewed as promiscuous women. c. Nurses are controlling, almost sadistic women who enjoy their power over patients. d. Nurses are obedient handmaidens to physicians, following whatever orders are given.
The nurse manager is devising a teaching schedule for the staff who are about to begin using a new type of patient bed in the ICU. Implementation is planned in 6 weeks. When is the best time for the manager to schedule the teaching sessions?
1) Immediately 2) One week before implementation 3) Two weeks before implementation 4) Four weeks before implementation
A nurse notes that a 12-hour-old newborn has not had the first meconium stool. The nurse documents this finding and continues to monitor the newborn because, in term newborns, the first meconium stool occurs within how many hours of birth?
a. 6 to 8 b. 8 to 12 c. 12 to 24 d. 24 to 48