Ellen O'Hara, a child of Irish immigrants and a nurse researcher, designed a study to describe how first-generation Irish Americans reacted to pain. One disadvantage of this kind of approach is:
A) Ease of access to the study population
B) Candid reflex ions of the pain phenomena
C) Ability to detect nuances that others might miss
D) Unconscious myopia of the phenomena
D
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A) "You'll need to take these pills every 8 hours." B) "I'm going to show you how to perform your daily injection." C) "At first, you'll come to the outpatient clinic for your IV infusion once per day." D) "It's best to inject PTU into your abdomen rather than your arm."
A nurse caring for clients with heart failure must be aware of the compensatory mechanisms activated in heart failure. Which physiology is not associated with the neuroendocrine compensatory mechanism?
A) Increased cardiac workload causes myocardial muscle to hypertrophy and ventricles to dilate. B) Decreased CO stimulates the sympathetic nervous system and catecholamine release. C) Decreased CO and decreased renal perfusion stimulate the renin-angiotensin system. D) Antidiuretic hormone is released from posterior pituitary.
A client is receiving IV vancomycin for the treatment of Clostridium difficile. The nurse understands that the client who develops flushing, tachycardia, and hypotension during the infusion of vancomycin is experiencing which of the following?
1. Ototoxicity effect 2. Superinfection 3. Red man syndrome 4. Hives.
A 65-year-old patient diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to uncontrolled hy-pertension appears drowsy and confused with pronounced focal neurologic deficits. This symp-tomology would place this hemorrhage at which grade?
a. I b. II c. III d. IV