A preterm neonate on prolonged furosemide (Lasix) therapy is at increased risk for:
a. hypokalemia
b. hypophosphatemia
c. metabolic acidosis
Answer: a. hypokalemia
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Which statement best reflects why nurse-sensitive quality indicators are extremely important to the profession? Nurse-sensitive quality indicators:
a. are directly related to what nurses do for their patients. b. are used to determine salary increases in performance reviews. c. provide an opportunity to demonstrate a high level of expertise. d. provide the profession with a means to monitor ways to provide quality patient care.
Which electrolyte disturbance is likely to occur because the patient is in metabolic alkalosis?
a. hypercalcemia c. hyponatremia b. hypomagnesemia d. hypokalemia
The nurse develops long-term and short-term outcomes for a client admitted with asthma. Which of the following is an example of a long-term goal?
A) Client returns home verbalizing an understanding of contributing factors, medications, and signs and symptoms of an asthma attack. B) By day 3 of hospitalization, the client verbalizes knowledge of factors that exacerbate the symptoms of asthma. C) Within one hour of a nebulizer treatment, adventitious breath sounds and cough are decreased. D) Within 72 hours of admission, the client's respiratory rate returns to normal and retractions disappear.
A client with an indwelling urinary catheter is prescribed to receive sterile normal saline bladder irrigation at 100 mL/hr. After an 8-hour shift the nurse measures the client's output as being 1425 mL
What is the client's urine output for the 8-hour shift? What will be an ideal response?