A client has been admitted to the healthcare center and been diagnosed with pleurisy
The nurse explains that pleurisy is:
A) A disorder that will require an artificial opening in the trachea
B) An irritation of the upper airways of the lungs
C) An inflammation of the lung lining caused by infection, injury, or tumor
D) Fluid in the lungs often the result of bacteria
C
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Which of the following may develop in the patient when ketone bodies accumulate in excessive amounts?
A) Hypovolemia B) Polyuria C) Diabetic ketoacidosis D) Blurred vision
The nurse questions the patient with hypertension about the symptoms of headache because hypertension headaches characteristically occur as:
1. frontal in the afternoon. 2. temporal on exertion. 3. occipital on arising. 4. frontal at night.
An adolescent female is diagnosed with fibrocystic breast disease. What advice can the nurse provide the adolescent about this diagnosis?
A) Caffeine may increase the size of lesions. B) Fibrocystic lesions are precancerous lesions. C) Lesions will fade with the full growth of breasts. D) The lesions make breast self-examination ineffective.
The nursing student does not know if she has ever had chickenpox. When an antibody titer to varicella zoster virus is performed, the titer is negative. What is the correct interpretation of this finding?
A. The student nurse has chickenpox and can easily spread it to others. B. The student nurse has never been infected with varicella zoster virus and is sus-ceptible to chickenpox. C. The student nurse has had a subclinical case of chickenpox at least five years ago and is now immune to the disease. D. The student nurse has never been infected with varicella zoster virus and is sus-ceptible to the development of shingles