The nurse working with a 15-year-old patient who is dying understands that the adolescent's concept of death is that:
a. Death is not permanent
b. Death may happen in the distant future
c. Death can be understood in a logical manner
d. Death is a form of punishment
C
A teenager understands death in a logical manner.
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A nurse is conducting a preoperative assessment of a 76-year-old patient who will be having a transurethral prostatic resection later that day
The patient's wife is concerned about maintaining the patient's medication regimen, stating, "He takes a lot of pills and it's important that he gets them while he's in the hospital.". How can the nurse best respond to the wife's concern? A) "The care team will look at his medications and only hold those that can safely be stopped.". B) "You're right that it's important, and they'll be continued throughout his stay in the hospital.". C) "His medications will have to stop while he's being held without food, but we will restart them as soon as possible.". D) "In light of his surgery, your husband probably will not need any of the medications that he used to require.".
Predictable patterns of development are referred to as which of the following?
1. attitudes 2. habits 3. milestones 4. levels
What is true about pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)?
a. It can be prevented by proper personal hygiene. b. It is easily prevented by compliance with any form of contraception. c. It may have devastating effects on the reproductive tract of affected adolescents. d. It can potentially cause life-threatening and serious defects in the future children of affected adolescents.
Many nurses in clinical settings base nursing interventions on information obtained from
a. level 1 evidence. b. individual research studies. c. colleagues. d. the American Nurses Association.