A nursing instructor is preparing a class lecture about schizophrenia and outcomes focusing on recovery. Which of the following would the instructor include as a major goal?
A) Continuity of care
B) Shorter in-patient stays
C) Immediate crisis stabilization
D) Social engagement
B, C, F
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The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the alveoli of the lungs and the pulmonary blood system is
a. internal respiration c. inspiration b. external respiration d. expiration
After your home health visit with your client, you visit with his caregiver, his wife of 50 years. When you offer to research caregiver resources for her, she responds,
"We would never depend on outside help." You can make the nursing diagnosis: 1. Risk for caregiver burnout. 2. Caregiver role strain. 3. Caregiver role stress. 4. Risk for caregiver role strain.
The nurse explains that anxiety disorders differ from normal anxiety. Which statement accurately describes anxiety disorders?
a. Anxiety disorders develop into suicidal tendencies. b. Anxiety disorders are seldom controlled. c. Anxiety disorders interfere with effective functioning. d. Anxiety disorders make maintenance of relationships impossible.
A patient has been receiving morphine sulfate 5 mg IV every 4 hours for the past 2 weeks. She states that the pain is not being relieved as well as it was in the past. What is the reason for this development?
A) She has developed a dependency on the morphine. B) She has metastatic cancer and is dying. C) She has greater pain with inactivity. D) She has developed tolerance to morphine.