The nurse manager wants to determine the cause of an increase in medication errors over the past 6 months. This is an example of which type of research?
a. Experimental
b. Trial and error
c. Quality assurance
d. Scientific
C
The nurse manager is seeking ways to improve the quality of care. Options a, b, and d are incor-rect.
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The nurse is caring for a postoperative client who is receiving morphine every two hours for pain. The client has a respiratory rate of 18 with normal depth of respirations
The nurse assesses that the client is frequently drowsy but arousable, and drifts off to sleep during conversation. The client is due for the next dose of morphine. The nurse plans to do which of the following for this client? 1. Give the next dose of morphine. 2. Give the client half of the dose of morphine. 3. Withhold the medication. 4. Notify the RN of the client's status.
A(n) _____ _____ is a vertical line on the ECG that indicates the artificial pacemaker has discharged
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Data that are the pieces of information observed or measured by the nurse are known as ________ data
a. nursing b. medical c. subjective d. objective
A 32-year-old married woman who recently gave birth to her first child by cesarean section says, "My husband and I worry about our baby all the time. We did everything right, yet he had so many problems at birth." Which statement by the nurse would be therapeutic?
A. "I'd like to ask you a series of parenting questions to determine your fitness." B. "What's been happening since you all came home? As I understand it, the baby is thriving." C. "Can you tell me more about the worrying? What's been happening since you brought your baby home?" D. "Lots of women do everything right but wind up having cesarean sections. Why worry when it won't change anything?"