A nurse is changing a wound dressing on a client admitted overnight for multiple open lacerations following an accident. During the dressing change, the nurse notices swelling and redness at the wound edge. The nurse understands that this is a result of which of the following?
A) Inflammatory response
B) Infection
C) Sepsis
D) Counter-regulatory hormonal response
A) Inflammatory response
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The statistical procedure that controls for the influence of extraneous variables on the dependent variable is:
A) Simple linear regression B) Factor analysis C) Analysis of covariance D) Life table analysis
A student nurse would properly contact and advise the supervisory staff nurse if
1. A patient demands to be moved to a different room but will not say why. 2. A physically larger patient for whom the student nurse is providing ambulation therapy has trouble getting back into bed and the student is unable to get him into bed herself. 3. A patient seems to be trying to communicate something urgent but cannot do so because of a language barrier. 4. A patient's condition seems worse than at the staff nurse's last assessment.
If gangrene develops in a patients foot and the patient is found to have high blood lipid levels, he or she probably has
a. type 2 diabetes mellitus. b. peripheral artery disease. c. angina pectoris. d. fatty liver disease.
MC Occlusion of a central vascular access device places the client at risk for
A. Stroke. B. Drug extravasation. C. Air embolism. D. Pulmonary embolism.