A patient who sustained a gunshot wound walks into the emergency department and collapses. Which priority directions should the nurse who assumes this patient's care give to those coming to assist?
1. Check the airway.
2. Bring a wheelchair.
3. Put direct pressure on the wound.
4. Check for identification.
5. Check the pulse.
1, 3, 5
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The nurse is caring for a family within an impoverished community. What is it important for the nurse to understand about families?
a. They are made up of a set of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption. b. They are comprised of a group of indi-viduals living together who may not be related. c. They all have one unique form indepen-dent of cultural or ethnic orientations. d. They all have the same strengths, weak-nesses, resources and challenges.
The client who has megaloblastic anemia will usually have red blood cells that are:
a. macrocytic. c. normocytic. b. hypochromic. d. sickled.
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You are the circulating nurse caring for an obese patient undergoing bilateral total knee replacement. Tourniquet cuffs are to be placed on both operative limbs. Outline the risks associated with each of the following and the steps you would take to minimise patient injury. Provide rationales for your actions. What will be an ideal response?
Prepare an interview schedule for investigating the experiences of clients who have an in-dwelling urinary catheter. What sort of questions might you want to ask of your participants?
What will be an ideal response?