Which manifestation of an oncologic emergency requires the nurse to contact the health care provider immediately?
A. New onset of fatigue
B. Edema of arms and hands
C. Dry cough
D. Weight gain
Answer: B. Edema of arms and hands
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When a small group of preschool-age children were playing house, each child was pretending to be a particular family member. What type of play does the nurse recognize these children are participating in?
a. Parallel b. Cooperative c. Symbolic d. Fantasy
A nursing patient assessment differs from a medical patient assessment in that a nursing patient assessment:
a. focuses on functional abilities and deficits. b. does not focus on feelings and behavior. c. focuses only on subjective data. d. focuses primarily on patient history.
According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, there are five factors that a nurse should assess when making a decision to delegate nursing tasks
These factors are assessing the potential for harm, the complexity of the task, the amount of problem solving and innovation re-quired, the unpredictability of the outcome, and the ____. a. Amount of time that the task will take b. Degree of comfort the delegatee has with the task c. Level of patient interaction d. Method of measuring outcomes
A physician explains to a motorcycle accident victim that he will need further surgery to remove a sequestrum from his right tibia. A sequestrum can be described as:
a. virus c. an abcess b. dead bone d. an infection