You are the nurse caring for an elderly Asian-American patient who speaks little English. How would you assess this patient's pain?
A) Make a chart with English on one side and the patient's native language on the other.
B) Use the regular 0-to-10 pain scale.
C) Base your assessment on objective, physiological data.
D) Have a translator come in every time you assess the patient, so you can document what the patient said.
A
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Several nurses are concerned that agency policies related to restraint and seclusion practices are inadequate
Which understanding about the relationship of substandard institutional policies and individual nursing practice should guide nursing practice? a. The policies do not absolve an individual nurse of the responsibility to practice according to professional standards of nursing care. b. Agency policies are considered the legal standard by which a professional nurse must act and therefore override other standards of care. c. In an institution with substandard policies, the nurse has a responsibility to inform the supervisor and leave the premises without delay. d. Interpretation of policies by the judicial system is rendered on an individual basis and therefore cannot be predicted.
A family member wants to donate blood for a client who needs a blood transfusion. What information from the family member would make them ineligible for donation?
A) The family member was serving in the military in England in 1993 for 2 years. B) The family member had a surgical procedure 4 years previously for an inguinal hernia. C) The family member received a blood transfusion 10 years previously at a hospital in Canada. D) The family member takes an antihypertensive medication for control of blood pressure.
The nurse explaining reproductive physiology to high school students in health class states that when the cell divides without replicating DNA and results in a cell with 23 chromosomes, it is called:
A) conception. B) mitosis. C) fertilization. D) meiosis.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of critical thinking?
a. dependent thinking c. intellectual humility b. proactive d. creative