A clinical nurse specialist conducts an in-service regarding the effects of various hormones on the body. The nurse specialist informs the in-service participants that increased levels of the hormone prolactin may play a role in the development of:
A) Acute mania.
B) Depression.
C) Anorexia nervosa.
D) Alzheimer disease.
B
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The nurse manager asks staff members to work as a group in planning the activities for Nurse?s Week. Which is the correct name for this group?
1. Command group 2. Task group 3. Competing group 4. Informal group
Which statement best describes pseudodementia?
A. Schizophrenia in the elderly. B. Depression in the elderly that looks like dementia. C. Substance abuse related delirium that looks like dementia. D. Autism in children that mimics dementia.
The nurse is caring for a 4-year-old girl of Mexican descent who is recovering in the hospital following a diagnosis of epileptic seizures. The child's mother insists on a visit from her curandera to provide healing powers to her daughter
What would be the best intervention of the nurse in this situation? A) Explain to the mother that hospital policy does not allow visits from unlicensed practitioners. B) Encourage the mother to arrange a visit with her curandera when her daughter is released from the hospital. C) Discuss the situation with the child's physician and arrange for a visit from the curandera at the hospital if appropriate. D) Distract the child's mother from her demands by focusing on child and family teaching related to her daughter's condition.
In the discharge teaching plan for a client after MI, the nurse would include that the client should
a. begin walking for short periods every day. b. continue previous lifestyle when ready. c. resume sexual intercourse in 3 months. d. take 1 aspirin every 8 hours as ordered.