Binge eating in anorexia nervosa is usually followed by purging. A mental health nurse knows that purging is defined as what?
A) Use of laxatives on a daily basis
B) Evacuation of the digestive tract by eating until you vomit
C) Overuse of diuretics until fluid volume depletion occurs
D) Evacuation of the digestive tract by self-induced vomiting or excessive use of laxatives and diuretics
D
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a. Consult with the Wound Ostomy Care Nurse. b. Give pain medication prior to dressing changes. c. Maintain sterile technique for dressing changes. d. Prepare the client for eventual amputation.
An acutely ill patient is in a supine position. What approach should the nurse take to assess the patient's lung fields for a patient in this position?
A) Inform the health care provider that the patient is in a supine position and anticipate an order for a portable chest X-ray. B) Turn the patient on his or her side to assess all lung fields, so that dependent areas can be assessed for breath sounds. C) Avoid turning the patient, and assess the accessible breath sounds from the anterior chest wall. D) Obtain a pulse oximetry reading and, if the reading is low, reposition the patient and auscultate breath sounds.
A client, aged 16 years, comes to the crisis clinic. The nurse learns she is being molested by her
uncle. The client told her mother of the uncle's behavior, but the mother accused the daughter of lying. The client's crisis would be classified as a. maturational. b. situational. c. adventitious. d. organic.
A medication that interferes with metabolic functions in cells is called a(n):
1. antibiotic. 2. alkylating agent. 3. antimetabolite. 4. mitotic inhibitor.