Which assessment information will be most important for the nurse to report to the health care provider about a patient with acute cholecystitis?
a. The patient's urine is bright yellow.
b. The patient's stools are tan colored.
c. The patient has increased pain after eating.
d. The patient complains of chronic heartburn.
b. The patient's stools are tan colored.
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The nurse is caring for a patient with metastatic bone cancer. The patient asks the nurse why he has had to keep getting larger doses of his pain medication and it doesn't seem to affect him. What is the nurse's best response?
A) "Over time, you become more tolerant of the drug." B) "You are immune to the effects of the drug." C) "You may have formed an addiction to the drug." D) "Your body absorbs less of the drug due to the cancer."
An older patient asks a nurse, "It seems like all of my friends and I have difficulty sleeping. Is it common among older people?" The nurse formulates a response based on the knowledge that normal age-related changes in sleep include:
(Select all that apply.) a. total sleep time and sleep efficiency are reduced. b. rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is short-er, less intense, and more evenly distrib-uted. c. sleep requirements for older adults are less than that of younger adults. d. daytime napping is common. e. sleep tends to be deeper in older adults than in younger adults.
The health care provider suspects that an older adult has a urinary tract infection. A common symptom of the condition early in the infection in the older adult is:
a. Chills b. Flank pain c. Confusion d. Hematuria
A child has a chronic cough and diffuse wheezing during the expiratory phase of respiration. This suggests what condition?
a. Asthma b. Pneumonia c. Bronchiolitis d. Foreign body in trachea