The 1996 Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act guaranteed:
A. free health care to all pregnant women.
B. a 1-week hospital stay after cesarean section.
C. follow-up home care for all women after delivery.
D. a 48-hour hospital stay after vaginal delivery.
D
This law guarantees a 48-hour hospital stay for normal births and 96 hours for cesarean births. This allows more time for patient teaching and recovery.
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a. The average age of nurses is 30 years old. b. Pay rates level out after a few years in the profession. c. Women have other career options. d. Working conditions are optimal.
You are a unit supervisor and are approached by an employee who tells you that several RNs on the unit want to address the possibility of initiating flextime on the unit. What is the best response?
A) Tell the employee you will think about flextime, although you have no intention of making a change. B) Ask the employee the names of all the employees who want the change so you can be aware of potential troublemakers. C) Plan to let employees air their views at the next staff meeting. D) Attempt to eliminate this idea by dropping hints that upper management will never go for flextime.
A 4-year-old has acute glomerulonephritis and is admitted to the hospital. An appropriate nursing diagnosis for this child would be
1. risk for injury related to loss ofblood in urine. 2. fluid-volume excess related todecreased plasma filtration. 3. risk for infection related tohypertension. 4. altered growth and developmentrelated to a chronic disease.
A nurse begins a patient interaction by systematically gathering information on the patient’s care and eventually evaluating the outcomes of care. Which of the following represents this continuum of care?
A) Assessment process
B) Outcomes analysis
C) Nursing interventions
D) Nursing process