A homeless patient is admitted with an infected leg wound. According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which nursing intervention meets one of his basic physiological needs?
1) Providing the patient with a dinner tray
2) Administering antibiotics as prescribed
3) Irrigating a wound with normal saline solution
4) Encouraging the patient to express his feelings
ANS: 1
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The laboring client has rated her pain at 9 on a scale of 1–10, and requests IV pain medication. Which statement is most important for the nurse to make? "Narcotic medications:
1. "May make you unsteady. You need to ask for help when you get up." 2. "Have a very rapid onset, and begin to work in 2–3 minutes." 3. "Are metabolized by your body, so they don't last as long as an epidural." 4. "May cause sleepiness in the baby that can be reversed with Narcan."
The identification of a disease or condition by a scientific evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, history, laboratory tests, and procedures is known as a _________ _______
ANS:
An 8-year-old child is hospitalized with infectious polyneuritis (Guillain-Barré syndrome [GBS]). When explaining this disease process to the parents, what should the nurse consider?
a. Paralysis is progressive with little hope for recovery. b. Disease is inherited as an autosomal, sex-linked, recessive gene. c. Disease results from an apparently toxic reaction to certain medications. d. Muscle strength slowly returns, and most children recover.
Which patient using an inhaler would benefit most from using a spacer?
a. 3-year-old with a cleft palate b. 25-year-old with multiple sclerosis c. 50-year-old with hearing impairment d. 72-year-old with left-sided hemiparesis