You are hired as an employee health nurse in a small community hospital. Each employee is informed that he or she needs a tuberculin skin test and the date that the test is due
The kitchen employees tell you that they don't need the test and never had to have it before. You respond that
A) the test does not need to be given if you do not have client contact.
B) TB guidelines require testing of an entire health care setting.
C) the test will not hurt; we won't fire you if you test positive.
D) the TB guidelines state kitchen workers are at risk.
B
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Which statement is correct regarding the role of the nurse manager with respect to scheduling and staffing a nursing unit?
a. The nurse manager does not play any role in the staffing of a unit where self-scheduling is implemented. b. The nurse manager must follow the organization's direction for staffing, not that of the collective agreement. c. The nurse manager sets the parameters for all scheduling. d. The nurse manager follows broad parameters that are set at an executive level.
The nurse is preparing a patient education handout on the differences between false labor and true labor. What information is most important for the nurse to include?
1. True labor contractions begin in the back and sweep toward the front. 2. False labor often feels like abdominal tightening, or "balling up." 3. True labor can be diagnosed only if cervical change occurs. 4. False labor contractions do not increase in intensity or duration.
The wife of a client with angina pectoris calls the health care provider's office and reports to the nurse that her husband is experiencing chest pain and has taken 2 sublingual nitroglycerin tablets 5 minutes apart, with no relief. The nurse tells the client's wife to:
A. Have her husband rest and, if no relief is obtained, call back B. Discuss the situation with the doctor, who will call her as soon as he gets into the office C. Call Emergency Medical Services to take her husband to the emergency department (ED) immediately D. Give her husband a third tablet and, if no relief is obtained, call an ambulance to have him transported to the ED
Which disorder is characterized by the progressive loss of brain function with memory loss, confusion, and dementia?
1. Psychosis 2. Multiple sclerosis 3. Parkinson disease 4. Alzheimer disease