What should a nursing assistant do to prepare a room for the patient's return from surgery?
What will be an ideal response?
To prepare the patient's room, a nursing assistant should strip
the linen from the bed and make a surgical bed; bring special
equipment to the bedside as needed; and remove everything
from the bedside table except tissues, an emesis basin, tongue
depressor, and equipment for taking vital signs.
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A nurse is teaching an older adult who is experiencing an acute attack of gout. Which of the fol-lowing should the nurse include in the teaching?
a. Avoid foods high in purine. b. Encourage the patient to take in 1 L of fluid daily. c. Consume one glass of red wine daily. d. Recommend that the patient eat 12-16 ounces of foods high in protein such as red meat.
A patient who has been taking nalidixic acid for a UTI is now diagnosed with a respiratory infection. The patient asks, "Will the nalidixic acid I'm taking cover both infections?" Select the nurse's best response
a. "The drug you are on will cover you for organisms in the respiratory tract as well. Continue taking it as prescribed." b. "To cover the respiratory tract infection, you will need two additional doses of this medication." c. "This drug can actually cause respiratory tract infections, so you should discontinue it immediately." d. "The drug you're taking has no action outside the urinary tract. You will need an additional antibiotic for the respiratory tract infection."
A patient inquires if his blood pressure is normal. The nurse responds that normal blood pressure is defined as less than:
1. 160/70 mm Hg. 2. 128/60 mm Hg. 3. 139/89 mm Hg. 4. 130/85 mm Hg.
Which assessment finding would the nurse evaluate as a possible indication that an older adult is being abused?
1. There are injuries in various states of healing over the patient's trunk and extremities. 2. The patient says, "I forgot to get my prescriptions filled and ran out of medicine.". 3. The patient fell getting out of a recliner and injured the right knee. 4. The patient says, "I cut my hand when the jar I was washing broke.".