When caring for a patient who has had prostate surgery, report all of the following to the nurse except
A) excess bleeding.
B) falling blood pressure and rapid pulse.
C) cold clammy skin, pallor, restlessness.
D) pink-tinged drainage.
D
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A clinic nurse is caring for a 5-year-old brought to the clinic with a history of intermittent vomiting for 24 hours. The nurse would recognize that which drug is not recommended for use in children?
A) Dimenhydrinate B) Promethazine C) Metoclopramide D) Diphenhydramine
Many parents-to-be will have questions about multiple births. Maternity nurses should be able to tell them that:
1. twinning and other multiple births are increasing because of fertility drugs and delayed childbearing. 2. dizygotic twins (two fertilized ova) are the ones with the potential to be "Sia-mese," or conjoined twins. 3. identical twins are more common in Caucasian families. 4. fraternal twins are same sex, usually male.
Conclusions from a research study can be powerful because they:
A) represent the findings of the study B) are used to guide nursing practice C) create evidence-based practice D) debate the meaning of the results
Chantal, a 35-year-old G1 P0 postpartum woman is Rh0(D)-negative and needs Rh0(D) immune globulin to be administered. The most appropriate dose that the perinatal nurse would expect to be ordered would be:
A) 120 ug B) 250 ug C) 300 ug D) 350 ug