What other measures can you use to manage T.C's pain more effectively?
What will be an ideal response?
You could have T.C. use other therapies available for pain relief, such as focused breathing and
relaxation, distraction, imagery, positioning, and the use of heat or cold compresses. These
nonpharmacologic interventions all have the advantage of not causing respiratory depression.
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1. Arranges a time for teaching with the client. 2. Teaches the client in the day room. 3. Asks visitors to leave and escorts the client to his room. 4. Asks the client to come to his room and tells the visitors he'll be back soon.
Which information should the nurse include in medication teaching for the patient prescribed clindamycin for mastitis?
1. "Let the prescriber know if you develop diarrhea.". 2. "This medication may cause insomnia.". 3. "You may experience dizziness while taking clindamycin.". 4. "You may notice that your urine is a greenish-yellow color while taking this drug.".
Drug metabolism can be affected by which factors? (Select all that apply.) Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected
1. Kidney disease 2. Age 3. Liver disease 4. Genetics 5. Kidney disease
A committee is evaluating several vendors for a health information system, and the members notice that one of the vendors describes some new and amazing features that are in development,
along with an upcoming release of a new product that is designed to increase the user-friendliness of the system. Unfortunately, the vendor fails to deliver on these features. The committee would interpret this as which of the following? A) Vaporware B) Vanilla product C) Bugs D) Rollout