Who should be involved in quality control measurement?
A) Patients, doctors, and community members
B) Professional nursing staff
C) Consumers, health professionals, staff, and all levels of management
D) First-, middle-, and top-level management
C
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The nurse executive wishes to change the culture of the long-term care facility to one in which restraints are seldom used. Which information would the nurse provide when discussing this change with the facility's ownership?
1. In facilities where restraints are seldom used the rate of falls has decreased. 2. Reducing restraint use increases fall rate and injury rate, but results in better patient satisfaction ratings. 3. Fall rates have increased, but the incidence of long-term injuries has remained unchanged. 4. Chemical restraints can be substituted for most physical restraints.
A client who has been diagnosed with blood pressure problems is eager to know more about the condition. What should the nurse explain is one of the internal processes that attempt to maintain blood pressure within normal limits?
A) Special sensory receptors in blood vessel walls called baroreceptors are stimulated. B) The arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood will increase in size. C) The right and left coronary arteries divide into smaller branches over the surface. D) Blood moves on through the heart valve during contraction to enter lungs.
When transferring a person:
a. The person's strong side moves first b. The person's weak side moves first c. The side closest to you moves first d. The person's right side moves first
A patient diagnosed with a spinal cord injury experienced spinal shock lasting 15 days. The pa-tient is now experiencing an uncompensated cardiovascular response to sympathetic stimulation. What does the nurse suspect caused this condition?
a. Toxic accumulation of free radicals below the level of the injury b. Pain stimulation above the level of the spinal cord lesion c. A distended bladder or rectum d. An abnormal vagal response