The perinatal nurse sees Tina and her partner in triage to assess her labor. Tina is a G1 TPAL 0000 woman who is contracting every 5–7 minutes. She lives about 45 minutes away from the hospital
She explains that she is very fearful about going home, she feels very tired and she is not sure how she will cope with her labor. The perinatal nurse determines that Tina is a fingertip dilated, 50% effaced and the cervix is anterior. The most appropriate pharmacological agent that might be ordered for Tina is:
A) Secobarbitol sodium (Seconal)
B) Lorazepam (Ativan)
C) Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
D) Promethazine (Phenergan)
A
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Cells that can automatically generate their own impulses and waves of contraction without any outside humoral or nervous intervention have a property called
A) excitability. B) refractoriness. C) automaticity. D) rhythmicity.
The mother of a 7-year-old girl tells the school nurse that her child is deathly afraid of going to school. What would be the best intervention the nurse could suggest in this situation?
A) Return the child to school and investigate the cause of the fear. B) Have the child stay home from school until any issues causing this fear are resolved. C) Investigate a new school for the child to attend that the child will not be afraid of. D) Tell the child that privileges will be taken away if she does not return to school.
A nurse is obtaining a history and reviewing the chart of an adult male patient who has been taking oral androgens. Which assessment would warrant notifying the provider?
a. Acne and increased facial hair b. Breast enlargement c. Increased libido d. Nausea, anorexia, and fatigue
The student nurse asks the nursing instructor, "Do the medications we are studying actually make more neurotransmitters?" What is the best response by the nursing instructor?
1. "No, but medications can heal diseases of the autonomic nervous system." 2. "Yes, some of the newer medications are very good at doing this." 3. "Yes, but the newer drugs that do this have some serious side effects." 4. "No, medications can only increase or decrease the action of neurotransmitters."