The first and third stages of the general adaptation syndrome are broken down into shock and countershock
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Planning is a process designed to achieve goals in dynamic, competitive environments. As a new manager, what is the first step you will undertake to develop a strategic plan of action for a con-gestive heart failure program?
a. Search the environment to determine changes that may affect the organization. b. Appraise the organization's strengths and weaknesses. c. Identify the major opportunities for and threats to the organization. d. Identify and evaluate the various strate-gies available to the organization.
The nurse diagnoses the client's health problem as Altered elimination. Which information from the database would be an appropriate etiology for this diagnosis?
a. Complaints of cramping and constipation b. Diagnosis of hip fracture c. Poor fiber intake d. Abdominal distention
When the patient with HIV infection confesses that he has missed 10 days of his dose of 400 mg of nevirapine, the nurse informs him that the physician will most likely order:
1. a dose of 800 mg of the drug for the next 10 days to make up the difference. 2. a second antiviral agent to be taken with the nevirapine. 3. a restart of the nevirapine protocol, beginning with 200 mg/day. 4. the initiation of an entirely different drug.
The emergency department nurse manager observes one of his staff nurses reading the admission history of a client being admitted to the psychiatric unit after an overdose
The staff nurse was not assigned to nor involved in the client's care while the client was treated in the emergency department. The nurse manager knows that under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations: a. this is a violation of the client's privacy b. the staff nurse has legal access to the record under the emergency care provisions c. any health care provider working at the facility has legal access to any client's record d. the nurse may read the record, but may not divulge its contents to anyone else