Which of the following is an acute emergency and is seen in clients with a cervical or high thoracic spinal cord injury after the spinal shock subsides?
A) Tetraplegia B) Areflexia C) Autonomic dysreflexia D) Paraplegia
C
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Two staff nurses are in conflict about the summer vacation schedule. The nurse manager is contemplating assigning both nurses to a task that will require frequent contact with each other, hoping that they will resolve the issue themselves
What should the manager consider before making this assignment? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. What is the anxiety level of the nurses in regard to the vacation schedule? 2. Have the nurses ever worked together before on a project? 3. Will the conflict decrease the efficiency of the unit while the nurses are self-solving the issue? 4. How intense is the conflict about vacation scheduling? 5. Are the nurses talking to the rest of the staff about the conflict?
When discussing care of a circumcised infant after discharge from the hospital, the nurse should tell the mother to:
a. gently remove the yellow exudate from the foreskin. b. apply sterile petroleum gauze after each diaper change. c. wipe the circumcision with alcohol each day. d. apply a plastic-lined diaper to prevent urine from leaking.
The correctional mental health nurse assesses a new prisoner who is beginning his incarceration for
committing a sex crime. The prisoner speaks in a low voice, is tearful, and tells the nurse that his life may as well be over as there is no hope that he will ever be able to fit into society after he is released from prison. He states his family has disowned him and that wherever he goes his reputation will follow him. The priority intervention would be to a. arrange to meet with him weekly to discuss feelings. b. offer to contact his family to speak of his remorse. c. advise the guards to place him in solitary confinement. d. arrange to implement suicide precautions.
A client sees three different physicians for separate health problems and has received prescriptions for medications from each of them
The nurse who is managing the care of the client in the home interprets that this client is at risk for Ineffective therapeutic regimen management due to which of the following factors? 1. personal factors 2. decisional conflict 3. access to care 4. fragmentation of services