In considering the overall task of the team, what issues should be considered in the care of the patient?
a. Nursing care plan, religious preference, and financial base
b. Physician's orders, nursing actions, and religious preference
c. Family needs, physician's orders, nursing diagnosis, and religious preference
d. Physician's treatment plan, nursing plan of care, and needs of the patient and family
D
Nurses as individuals and as team members are advocates of the patient with a focus on the best and safest delivery of quality health care.
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1. Interviewing parents to determine the cause of the SIDS incident. 2. Allowing parents to hold, touch, and rock the infant. 3. Sheltering parents from the grief by not giving them any personal items of the infant, such as footprints. 4. Advising parents that an autopsy is not necessary.
How does the administration of neomycin (Mycifradin) reduce the production of ammonia?
a. By assisting the hepatic cells to regenerate b. By reducing ascites c. By decreasing the bacteria in the gut d. By helping to digest fats and proteins
Which of the following would be considered an abnormal finding when the nurse practitioner uses an otoscope to look at a toddler's ear? The tympanic membrane is described as
A) "transparent." B) "a shallow, oval cone pointing inward toward apex." C) "small, whitish cord seen traversing the middle ear from back to front." D) "yellow, amber discoloration noted."
A patient has a peptic ulcer and is placed on a proton pump inhibitor. The patient asks how long he will have to take this medication before it will start to work. What is your best response to this patient?
1. It is a fast-acting drug and will act in 2 days. 2. Most of these medications take 2 to 3 weeks. 3. In 4 weeks you will see a difference and have complete relief. 4. It will take over 6 to 8 weeks for this drug to take effect.