An African-American is admitted to your unit with liver disease. To correctly assess this patient for jaundice, on what body area would the nurse look for yellow discoloration?
A) Elbows
B) Lips
C) Nail beds
D) Sclerae
Ans: D
Feedback: Jaundice, a yellowing of the skin, is directly related to elevations in serum bilirubin
and is often first observed in the sclerae and mucous membranes
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a. receiving the EHR incentive payments for Meaningful Use. b. meeting all the Meaningful Use criteria. c. leveraging the EHR to facilitate practice and payment change for healthcare transformation. d. attesting to Meaningful Use.
A patient is in the hospital with suspected intracerebral hemorrhage. The nurse anticipates that which neurological test is likely to be ordered?
1. x-rays of the spine 2. computed tomography (CT) 3. evoked potentials 4. electroencephalogram (EEG)
A nurse administers a highly protein-bound medication. Which patient would have the most immediate and powerful effect from this drug?
a. A healthy adolescent b. A 76-year-old patient with malnutrition c. A woman in the second trimester of pregnancy d. An adult with a fractured femur from a sporting accident
Recommendations from the IOM report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, advancing Health" include all of the following except:
a. Strengthen boundaries to protect nursing scope-of-practice b. Implement nurse residency programs c. Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020 d. Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020 e. Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health