A nurse who commonly works on a general medical-surgical floor is asked to work briefly in a critical care unit. The charge nurse, based on the legal principle of vicarious liability, should give this nurse which patient assignment?
A) Admit day-of-surgery patient after open heart surgery
B) Three stable patients awaiting transfer to medical units
C) Patient with hemodynamic monitoring and unstable vital signs
D) Patient whose care requires frequent titration of vasoactive medications
B
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a. neurological system c. musculoskeletal system b. back, and posterior and lateral thorax d. anterior thorax
The nurse is caring for a client admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of influenza. The nurse would expect this client to be treated with which of the following antiviral medications? (Select all that apply.)
a. oseltamivir (Tamiflu) b. albuterol sulfate (Ventolin) c. amantadine (Symmetrel) d. rimantadine (Flumadine) e. hydrocortisone sodium succinate (So-lu-Cortef) f. zanamivir (Relenza)
Regardless of the term used to describe high-quality health care, the focus of quality is:
a. what the consumer needs and wants. b. economical care. c. having the greatest technologic advancement. d. services equally distributed among populations.
The nurse teaching the phases of the menstrual cycle should include the fact that the corpus luteum begins to degenerate, estrogen and progesterone levels fall, and the blood supply to the endometrium is reduced in which phase?
1. Menstrual phase 2. Proliferative phase 3. Secretory phase 4. Ischemic phase