A patient with gastric cancer must receive long-term nutritional support. Due to the cancer, the patient has impaired gastric function and delayed gastric emptying, but the remainder of her gastrointestinal tract is intact and functional
Which of the following would be the best choice of nutritional support for this patient?
A) Jejunostomy tube
B) Nasoduodenal tube
C) Gastrostomy tube
D) Central parenteral nutrition
A
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a. Ataxia b. Decreasing pulse rate c. Decreasing blood pressure d. Increase in cardiac output
A young client is scheduled for an electroencephalogram (EEG). When the nurse is preparing the client for the test, the client reveals that during childhood he was mildly electrocuted, but was miraculously saved
Therefore, he is quite afraid of going through an EEG. In which of the following ways can the nurse help dispel the client's fear regarding the test? A) Distract the client's attention from the test. B) Inform the client that he will not experience any electrical shock. C) Inform the client that he will experience only mild electrical shock. D) Encourage adequate water intake by the client.
A client is prescribed to receive 1 liter of fluid over 8 hours. The nurse is using an administration set with the drop factor of 10 drops/mL. The nurse should set the infusion to run at which of the following drops per minute?
1. 21 3. 13 2. 17 4. 10
The nurse is caring for a family whose elderly father with dementia is living in their home. The nurse has instructed the family about how to decrease the father's agitation
The nurse determines that the son has understood the nurse's instructions when the son says: A) "Restraints can help reduce my father's agitation." B) "I should place my father in the bedroom with me so I can watch him more closely." C) "It's important that he gets out shopping with me or my wife." D) "If I simplify our home environment, my father may be less agitated."