Clinical practice guidelines provide
a. all the variables that healthcare providers encounter when managing patient conditions .
b. identification of unique patient characteristics and preferences for treatment.
c. recommendations from a panel of experts for best practice.
d. specific approaches to clinical management based on scientific evidence.
c. recommendations from a panel of experts for best practice.
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Which of the following nursing interventions contribute to achieving a client's goal for pain relief?
A) Minimize the client's description of pain or need for pain relief. B) Collaborate with the client about his or her goal for a level of pain relief. C) Use all forms of available pain management techniques. D) Prevent the client from self-administering analgesics.
The child of a nurse's neighbor sustains a large abrasion of the knee in a bicycle accident. The neighbor says to the nurse, "I'm using Mersol on my child's knee to help it heal. Old remedies are usually the best ones"
Select the nurse's best response. a. "Mercury-containing products such as thimerosal are not safe for wound care." b. "It would be more effective to use merbromin on your child's abrasion." c. "Just put a bandage on the abrasion. It will heal without any other treatments." d. "Scrub the wound thoroughly with hydrogen peroxide."
During a focused endocrine assessment, the patient states that her brother has fragile X syndrome. What should the nurse know about this health problem?
1. It is an endocrine disorder having a genetic basis. 2. It is not a relevant issue since the patient is female. 3. It is a health condition separate from the endocrine system. 4. It is a blood disorder.
Every time you administer an intermittent supplemental enteral feeding through a feeding tube what must you do after?
a. Run tap water through the tube until time for the next feeding. b. Flush the feeding tube completely to prevent clogging of the tube. c. Check the stomach for residual enteral feeding in the stomach. d. Get an abdominal x-ray to ensure that the feeding tube is correctly placed.