Which should the nurse recognize as an example of localized amnesia?
A. A client cannot relate any lifetime memories, including personal identity.
B. A client can relate family memories but has no recollection of a particular brother.
C. A client cannot remember events surrounding a fatal car accident.
D. A client whose home was destroyed by a tornado only remembers waking up in the hospital.
C
An individual with localized amnesia is unable to recall all incidents associated with a stressful event.
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The nurse is assessing the client's neck. Where is the axis located?
1. A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. D.
A patient is to have surgery and it is planned that atracurium (Tracrium) is to be used as an adjunct to general anesthesia. How will the atracurium work?
A) Act as agonist to acetylcholine B) Stops depolarization in the axion C) Act as antagonist to acetylcholine D) Stops repolarization in the axion
As the initial model for nursing, Nightingale's "descriptive theory" encouraged nurses to
a. Know all about the disease processes affecting their patient. b. Think about their patients and patients' environment. c. Combine nursing knowledge with medicine. d. Focus on medication administration and treatments.
The nurse knows that she needs to provide additional teaching to the client who makes which of the following statements?
1. "I'm so glad to find out that this is only a plantar wart—I was afraid it was something contagious like athlete's foot." 2. "The health care provider will remove this plantar wart by first freezing it." 3. "I had a planter wart in the past that the health care provider removed with acid." 4. "The health care provider may remove my wart by burning it."