The nurse is caring for a patient having a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE). What is an appropriate nursing intervention for the care of this patient?
1. Dim the lights in the room.
2. Insert an intravenous catheter.
3. Assess pedal pulses bilaterally.
4. Apply pressure to the sheath puncture site.
Answer: 2
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Match the critical thinking attitude on the left with the appropriate example on the right
1) Reading the instruction manual of a new glucose monitoring machine 2) Asking for help with a procedure because you have not done it before 3) Obtaining the latest research about a new diagnostic procedure even though the articles are difficult to find 4) Questioning the reason for a new staffing policy 5) Realizing your feelings about alternative medicine may interfere with the care you give a patient 6) Asking a patient's feelings about his cancer diagnosis 7) Questioning your feelings when a patient's family requests withholding nutrition for a terminally ill client ____ 1. Independent thinking ____ 2. Intellectual curiosity ____ 3. Intellectual humility ____ 4. Intellectual empathy ____ 5. Intellectual courage ____ 6. Intellectual perseverance
An older adult patient remarks that she has been experiencing constipation, which has never been a problem for her before now. What questions should the nurse ask?
1. "Do you have a list of your medications?" 2. "How many fluids do you drink each day?" 3. "Do you get enough rest at night?" 4. "What kinds of fruits and vegetables do you eat daily?" 5. "How often do you have a bowel movement?"
Which client situation fails to meet the first requirement of informed consent?
a. The parent does not understand the physi-cian's explanations. b. The physician gives the parent only a partial list of possible side effects and complications. c. No parent is available and the physician asks the adolescent to sign the consent form. d. The infant's teenage mother signs a consent form because her parent tells her to.
How are anticoagulant drugs and thrombolytic drugs different?
a. There is no difference; they both have the same actions. b. Anticoagulants prevent clots from forming whereas thrombolytics can dissolve clots that have already formed. c. Thrombolytics must be administered intravenously while all anticoagulants are administered as oral agents. d. Anticoagulants prevent clots by actually thinning the blood whereas thrombolyt-ics reduce platelet aggregation and do not affect blood thickness.