A nurse is teaching a student nurse how to care for the cast on a patient's arm. Which of the following is a recommended guideline?
A) Handle a plaster cast extremity with the palms of your hands for the first 12 to 24 hours, until the cast is fully dry.
B) If the cast is on an extremity, elevate the affected area on pillows covered with waterproof pads.
C) Keep the plaster cast covered with gauze until it is completely dry.
D) Perform skin and neurovascular assessment according to facility policy, as often as every 3 to 4 hours
B
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A. Child after complete repair via catheter for 1 year B. Child after transplant, no residual defect, for 6 months C. Child with congenital repair with residual defect, for life D. Child with one prior episode of bacterial endocarditis E. Child with prosthetic mitral valve for the first 6 months
A nurse is working in a health care clinic. She loves her work because of all the different people she meets. She professes to care for all of them and states that she understands them because she realizes which of the following is true?
a. Basically all patients are the same. b. Each person has a unique background. c. Caring for people requires very little experience. d. There are standard solutions to most health care problems.
Changes in the diet of the pregnant client who has phenylketonuria would include:
a. adding foods high in vitamin C. b. eliminating drinks containing aspartame. c. restricting protein intake to <20 g a day. d. increasing caloric intake to at least 1800 cal/day.
The term reciprocal attachment behavior refers to which of the following?
a. Behavior during the sensitive period when the infant is in the quiet alert stage b. Positive feedback an infant exhibits toward parents during the attachment process c. Unidirectional behavior exhibited by the infant, initiated and enhanced by eye contact d. Behavior by the infant during the sensitive period to elicit feelings of "falling in love" from the parents