A 77-year-old recently admitted to a long-term care facility refuses to join in activities or go to the dining room for meals. How should the nurse interpret this behavior?
a. Stubbornness
b. Depression
c. Fear
d. Exhaustion
B
Some older people respond to loss by losing their sense of personal identity and fulfillment. They have a deterioration in self-esteem and become depressed.
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In interviewing a patient who is seeking assistance at the urology clinic for erectile dysfunction, the nurse might begin the interview by saying:
a. "When was the last time you were impo-tent?" b. "Do you attempt to have intercourse every week?" c. "What medications have you tried pre-viously?" d. "What experiences have you had with erectile dysfunction?"
The male scrub nurse snags his right glove during vascular surgery in a rapid exchange of instruments and suture material. Which should the nurse do next?
1. Reglove as quickly as possible. 2. Leave the sterile field and rescrub. 3. Ask for a replacement scrub nurse. 4. Reglove and regown immediately.
Which event has contributed most to the current understanding of what critical thinking really is?
A) The increased numbers of people earning college degrees B) Research findings in areas of reasoning and problem solving C) Rapid changes occurring in medicine and nursing D) Nursing's acceptance as a true profession
Which of the following terms refers to the balance between clot formation and clot breakdown that occurs throughout the day?
A. Albuminuria B. Hemostasis C. Hematuria D. Metastasis