The nurse is planning care for a child with bacterial meningitis. The priority nursing diagnosis is:
1. Acute pain.
2. injury, Risk for.
3. infection, Risk for.
4. Impaired Gas Exchange.
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Rationale:
1. Management of pain is important, though not the priority.
2. Risk for injury is not the priority.
3. Risk for infection is not the priority.
4. Impaired gas exchange would be the priority to ensure patent airway and adequate gas exchange.
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MC The nurse is planning to teach an educational program on child and adolescent safety. Facts that the nurse should include are
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