The nurse identifies several factors that may contribute to sensory overload in a hospitalized school-age child, including
1. Narcotic medications
2. Being one of several children in a family
3. Diagnosis of chicken pox
4. Having intravenous lines inserted
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Rationale: Narcotics and sedatives can decrease the awareness of stimuli
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A new triage area has been built in the emergency department, causing conflict between the nurse manager and the nurses who think the design is not ?user friendly
? After repeated complaints the nurse manager asks maintenance to change the arrangement of the room. How did this conflict generate this change? 1. The complaints motivated the nurse manager to make the change to increase unit effectiveness. 2. The room design was uncomfortable for the nurses, which convinced the nurse manager to change the design. 3. The nurse manager was afraid the nurses would refuse to work in the room so the room had to be changed. 4. The nurses would keep complaining so the nurse manager changed the room to stop the griping.
A patient tells the nurse that it seems like the only time she gets a cold is when she is under higher than normal stress. What information should the nurse provide?
1. "You probably don't eat as well when you are under stress." 2. "You probably don't rest and sleep as well when your stress is high." 3. "Stress causes your body to have an autoimmune response." 4. "Stress increases cortisol, which suppresses your immune system."
The purpose of antiembolism stockings is to
A) help prevent the formation of blood clots in the bloodstream. B) compress the veins. C) improve return of blood to the heart. D) all of the above
When assessing a patient's bowel sounds, nurse auscultates loud bowel sounds in each quadrant every 3 seconds. The nurse understands that these findings could indicate that the patient is ex-periencing which condition?
a. Diarrhea b. Paralytic ileus c. Vomiting d. Constipation