The nurse is caring for a patient who is dying. The patient has persistent full depression. What is the most appropriate nursing action?
A) Understand that depression is normal at the end of life.
B) Facilitate use of antidepressant medications.
C) Encourage the patient to discuss life achievements.
D) Increase family visiting time and frequency.
B
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a. during intrauterine life with an HIV-positive mother. b. during the birth process of an HIV-positive mother. c. from other children who are HIV positive. d. from receiving a transfusion contaminated with the HIV virus. e. from breast feeding by an HIV-positive mother.
Unilateral anosmia is most likely caused by
a. a cold. c. meningioma of the sphenoid ridge. b. sinusitis. d. heavy smoking.
Public health practitioners prepared at the graduate level should be able to:
a. Teach public and community health nursing b. Assess and intervene successfully at the aggregate level c. Diagnose and treat disease and have prescriptive authority d. Run for political office as experts in public health policy
The home health nurse is visiting a 3-month-old infant who is diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism and is prescribed daily levothyroxine. Which should the nurse include in the infant's continued plan of care?
1. Stopping the medication as long as the child continues to grow 2. Preventing hypothermia with appropriate clothing 3. Changing formula because it is contraindicated with prescribed medication 4. Monitoring growth and development without any other prescribed interventions