To assess circulation in a client's legs, the nurse would take pulses at which of these locations?
a. temporal c. radial
b. apical d. popliteal
D
Circulation in the lower extremities are assessment through the palpation of the pulses in the popliteal and dorsal pedal.
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A novice nurse says, "We want to keep our patients in Stage 4 anesthesia during their surgery." How should the supervising nurse interpret this statement?
1. The novice nurse has made an error in this statement. 2. Stage 4 anesthesia is avoided. 3. This is a good description of the goal of anesthesia. 4. The novice nurse should have said Stage 3 anesthesia. 5. A more accurate statement would be that the patient is maintained in anxiolysis anesthesia.
Which nursing intervention is most likely to result in heightened self-awareness for a patient diagnosed with a personality disorder in the dramatic-erratic cluster?
a. Setting firm limits on behavior b. Providing clear expectations for acceptable behavior c. Using confrontational approaches to reduce self-mutilation d. Encouraging the patient to keep a daily journal to be shared with the nurse
According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of Practice, the psychiatric mental health nurse focuses on the:
a. diagnosis of psychiatric disorders b. diagnosis of human responses to mental problems c. treatment of client social welfare problems d. treatment of biochemical disorders
Which of the following statements is true?
a. The pattern of missingness is often more important than the amount of missing values in addressing the problem. b. Missing values strategies are only appropriate for quantitative (not categorical) variables. c. When values are missing, there is a greater risk of a Type I error than a Type II error. d. Missing values can be addressed for independent variables, but not for dependent variables.