In your role as a community health nurse, you vote to deny services for well teenagers; instead, you support a proposal to allocate the county's limited resources to childhood immunizations. Which ethical principle are you supporting?
1. justice
2. beneficence
3. fidelity
4. nonmaleficence
ANS: 1
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The nurse removes the skin staples of the client's incision. Which does the nurse expect during staple removal?
1. Skin edges separate slightly. 2. Staple end sticks in the skin. 3. Client complains of stinging. 4. Incision drains 30 ml of blood.
Nursing care for the patient with atelectasis would include:
a. Placing baby in semi-Fowler's b. Placing baby flat on back c. Placing baby on abdomen d. None of the above
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