The pregnant patient is asking about medications, supplements, and vaccines. What should the nurse indicate as being potentially teratogenic?
A) Penicillin
B) Rubella vaccine
C) Tylenol
D) Folic acid
Ans: B
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a. physician orders b. communication c. work processes d. work outputs
A person who has been fired from a job calls the mental health clinic and tells a nurse, "I feel so overwhelmed that I don't see any other answer but to die.". Another voice can be heard in the background. Which action should the nurse take?
a. Convince the caller to drive to the hospital. b. Get the caller's address, go to the home, and take the caller to the hospital. c. Stay on the telephone and send the police to bring the caller to the hospital. d. Ask to speak to the other person and alert them to the caller's suicide threat.
A client is scheduled to have general anesthesia for a surgical procedure. The client asks the nurse about being awake during surgery. What is the nurse's BEST response?
a. "The anesthesiologist can give you specific information about the effects of the anesthesia selected." b. "Just relax. You'll be fine." c. "I'm not sure. Better talk to your anesthesiologist." d. "With a general anesthetic you will be asleep during surgery."
The nurse is assisting a client newly diagnosed with leukemia with discharge from the hospital. The client asks what the health care provider means when she discuses survival rates for his kind of leukemia
The nurse explains that survival is the: 1. Number of persons with leukemia and the likelihood of their dying over several time periods. 2. Measurement of all cancer cases at a designated point in time. 3. Number of deaths from leukemia in a specific period. 4. Number of newly diagnosed cases of cancer.