A client complains of a tight, bandlike feeling around the trunk and sensations of numbness and tingling in both legs after a motor vehicle crash. What is the nurse's best action?
A. Immobilize the client and notify the physician.
B. Medicate the client for pain and provide oxygen.
C. Assess proprioception while massaging both legs.
D. Perform ROM exercises on the extremities.
A
The client is demonstrating symptoms of spinal cord compression. Prompt treatment is necessary to prevent paralysis and loss of function.
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1. The model was produced by Leininger to depict her theory of cultural care diversity and universality. 2. The model defines ethnicity as a consciousness of belonging. 3. The social factors are addressed within environmental contexts, language expressions, and ethnohistory. 4. The model emphasizes that health and care are influenced by elements of the social structure, such as technology, religious and philosophical factors, and cultural values among other elements. 5. The model consists of concentric circles with starting with an outlying rim representing the global society.
The nurse has received a report about a woman in labor. The woman's last vaginal examination was recorded as 3 cm, 30%, and -2. The nurse's interpretation of this assessment is that the cervix is:
1. effaced 3 cm, it is dilated 30%, and the presenting part is 2 cm above the ischial spines. 2. 3 cm dilated, it is effaced 30%, and the presenting part is 2 cm above the ischial spines. 3. effaced 3 cm, it is dilated 30%, and the presenting part is 2 cm below the ischial spines. 4. dilated 3 cm, it is effaced 30%, and the presenting part is 2 cm below the ischial spines.
A patient leaves the hospital without receiving his medication prescriptions and discharge instructions, which causes the patient to sustain physical harm. The hospital should be concerned about which of the following elements of malpractice?
1. Injury 2. Duty 3. Breach of duty 4. Causation
The ______________________ offers a protective coping shield that helps the client to function and stimulate the client's health
A. Created environment B. Spiritual variable C. Extrapersonal environment D. Physiological variable