The RN is caring for the following patients. Which patient and task are most appropriate to assign to the LPN/LVN?
a. A 34-year-old female who will need discharge teaching
b. A 40-year-old male post-op who needs a dressing change
c. A 64-year-old female who needs a bed bath
d. A 79-year-old whose plan of care needs to be updated
B
The LPN/LVN is skilled in dressing changes. The nursing assistant is skilled in giving a bed bath. Options a and d are tasks that must be performed by the RN.
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The nurse is interviewing the client. Which of the following may lead to communication breakdown between the nurse and client? Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. The client is a Native American and the nurse is of Northern European descent. 2. During the interview, the nurse is trying to remember what the healthcare provider asked her to do earlier in the day. 3. The young nurse creates an informal atmosphere to discuss safe sexual practices with a teenaged client. 4. The young nurse uses a serious and respectful tone to discuss erectile dysfunction with an older client. 5. The nurse states, "So, you experience pain with micturation.".
Which action would help a student successfully prepare for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®) examination?
a. Make note cards that can easily be retrieved to list only facts. b. Avoid timing oneself while studying and when in the actual testing mode to decrease anxiety. c. Ask peers for help because they had the same resources; especially seek their help for difficult concepts requiring critical thinking. d. Practice taking NCLEX-RN® exam–type questions and reviewing rationales for correct and incorrect answers.
The discontinuation of intrathecal baclofen therapy should be gradual in order to prevent:
A. hypernatremia. B. rebound spasticity. C. hyperglycemia. D. severe hypotension.
A possible nursing diagnosis shared among persons with fever, increased urinary output, diarrhea, diaphoresis, ileostomy, or fistula would be:
a. activity intolerance. b. fluid volume deficit. c. altered tissue perfusion. d. altered nutrition: less than body requirements.