The nurse should remove the cord clamp within 24 hours to:
1. Decrease the risk for infection
2. Make the clamp less difficult to remove
3. Reassess the number of vessels found within the cord
4. Decrease the chance of tension injury to the area
4. Decrease the chance of tension injury to the area
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The nurse is working with a committee to revise the hospital's disaster preparedness plan. Which information will the basic plan include? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected
Select all that apply. 1. A map of the area served by the hospital 2. The number and location of nursing homes in the area 3. The number of private homes in the immediate area of the hospital 4. The presence of an industrial area south of the hospital 5. The geographical area generally served by the hospital
A patient is receiving magnesium by intravenous infusion. Which finding indicates that the patient's blood magnesium level may be too high?
a. Respirations are 10 per minute and shallow. b. Heart rate is 66 beats/min and regular. c. The patient reports difficulty staying asleep. d. Episodes of diarrhea.
The nurse is analyzing several fetal heart rate patterns. The pattern that would be of most concern to the nurse would be which of the following?
1. Moderate variability 2. Early decelerations 3. Late decelerations 4. Accelerations
A patient with schizophrenia has been nonadherent with his home medication regimen. He requires frequent admissions to the intensive psychiatric unit for treatment of acute psychotic episodes
Which medication regimen would be appropriate for this patient? a. Daily home nursing visits to administer the prescribed oral medication b. Continuous inpatient hospitalization for medication therapy c. Administration of depot antipsychotic medication d. Subcutaneous medication administration