The nurse is caring for a newborn with hemolytic disease of the newborn who is receiving phototherapy. Which nursing intervention would be most appropriate for the nurse to do?
A) The nurse leaves the light off for one hour six times a day
B) The nurse dresses the newborn in a lightweight gown at night
C) The nurse turns the newborn every three or four hours
D) The nurse removes and changes the eye patches every hour
Ans: C
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A) Zone in burn center B) Zone of coagulation C) Zone of hyperemia D) Zone of stasis
Your patient is going to the operating room for an aortobifemoral bypass. You administer the preoperative medication that has been ordered. After administering a preoperative medication to the patient, what should you do?
A) Allow him to walk to the bathroom unassisted. B) Place the bed in low position with the side rails up. C) Tell him that he'll be asleep before he leaves for surgery. D) Take his vital signs.
Your client is a 40-year-old who was injured at work and developed chronic, intractable back pain that has forced the client to go on disability
The client does not want friends to see the client disabled and so refuses to socialize with them. Which of the following nursing diagnoses would be appropriate? 1. Ineffective coping 2. Hopelessness 3. Disturbed body image 4. Chronic pain
A surgical consent is signed:
a. When the person is admitted to the hos-pital b. The night before surgery c. The morning of surgery d. When the person understands the infor-mation given by the doctor