A patient newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes needs to learn how to give himself insulin
A nurse preparing to teach this patient how to administer an insulin injection must remember that one of the major variables that influences a patient's readiness to learn is what?
A) Lifespan
B) Gender
C) Occupation
D) Culture
Ans: D
Feedback: One of the major variables that influence a patient's readiness to learn is the patient's culture, because it affects how a person learns and what information is learned. Other variables include illness states, values, emotional readiness, and physical readiness.
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As a nurse manager, you observe a staff nurse who over the past few weeks has become withdrawn and has had several absences due to minor ailments. Your best action would be to:
a. Ask the nurse if she is okay during report. b. Refer the nurse to the employee assistance program. c. Ask the nurse to meet with you for a few minutes before she leaves for the day. d. Write a note to the nurse advising her that her work attendance must improve.
The nurse who was found to be negligent in a lawsuit was just told by her attorney that the hospital will attempt to recover damages from the nurse pursuant to the principle of indemnification
What will the hospital have to prove for this to occur? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply. 1. The hospital is only liable in the suit because of the employee's actions. 2. The nurse has been employed at the hospital for less than 6 months. 3. The hospital incurred monetary damages because of the employee's actions. 4. The employee has personal professional liability insurance. 5. The money owed by the hospital is in excess of one million dollars.
The nurse reviews the results of the arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) of a client with asthma to obtain information relative to the
a. contribution of gas exchange. b. effectiveness of alveolar ventilation. c. evidence of atelectasis. d. presence of respiratory alkalosis.