A patient has a motor vehicle crash but does not remember getting into the car to drive. Which question should the nurse ask when assessing this patient?
A. "What is the last thing you remember?"
B. "Where do you think you were going?"
C. "What medication are you taking?"
D. "What health problems do you have?"
Answer: C
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What is the primary advantage of the case method of care delivery?
a. It is inexpensive and cost effective. b. It allows several health-care providers trained at different levels to provide care at the same time. c. It gives nurses a high degree of autonomy and responsibility. d. It allows nurses with minimal education to provide high-quality care for all clients.
Select the action by the nurse in the obstetrical clinic that is most appropriate in preparing a client at 18 weeks gestation for an amniocentesis
a. Encourage her to void just before the pro-cedure. b. Post all blood work on the chart. c. Give her a prescribed sedative medication 1 hour before the procedure. d. Have her drink two glasses of water to make sure her bladder is full.
When a nurse examines birth and death certificates during an epidemiologic investigation, what data category is being used?
a. Routinely collected data b. Data collected for other purposes but useful for epidemiologic research c. Original data collected for specific epidemiologic studies d. Surveillance data