Upon admission to the subacute medical unit, each patient has a history and head-to-toe nursing assessment performed. When assessing a patient's hearing history, the nurse should consider which of the following facts?
A) Hearing loss is most often related to genetic factors.
B) With a healthy lifestyle, normal hearing levels can be maintained throughout the lifespan.
C) Endocrine and metabolic disease processes often cause hearing loss.
D) Numerous medications have ototoxic effects.
D
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A nurse explains to young parents that adolescence is a time of conflict, and that wise parents expect older adolescents to pull away, to be somewhat critical of them, and to feel ____________________ toward them, or have opposing feelings about them
Fill in the blank with correct word.
The steps of the nursing process coincide with those of the teaching-learning process. Which of the following statements accurately describes a step in the teaching-learning and nursing process?
1. Assessment is complete when the client's attitudes and current information is known. 2. A diagnosis of Deficient knowledge is determined. 3. Learning objectives are planned in all three domains of learning. 4. Evaluation is conducted by a post-hospitalization survey and interpreted by a volunteer.
A patient diagnosed with a history of depression disorder tells the nurse, "My primary-care provider told me to start taking fish oil capsules to prevent heart disease
Will it cause problems with my mental illness?" Select the nurse's best response. a. "It will not cause problems. It may actually help with your depressed feelings." b. "I cannot discuss recommendations you received from another health care provider." c. "It would be better for you to take vitamins C and E. I will notify your primary-care provider." d. "Please have your primary-care provider call me so we can discuss issues related to this preparation."
The nurse is analyzing a client's electrocardiogram tracing and realizes that each small square on the paper is equal to:
1. 0.04 second. 2. 0.12 second. 3. 0.20 second. 4. 0.40 second.