A 56-year-old patient with diverticulitis has been admitted to the medical unit. The nurse will most likely document which assessment in the charting?
a. Chest pain
b. Pain in the upper right quadrant
c. Pain in the left lower quadrant
d. Progressive weight loss
C
Patients with diverticulitis will complain of mild to severe pain in the left lower quadrant.
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A nurse practicing on a unit where domestic violence is common wants to learn how to apply nursing theory to practice on this unit
She considers the interrelatedness of the constructs of Watson's Theory of Caring and designs the above: a. conceptual model of caring. b. hypothesis of the impact of caring on domestic violence. c. proposition of how caring is conceptualized. d. theory of scientific inquiry.