The nurse is teaching a patient and family in the patient's critical care room. The critical care unit is busy and noisy. What nursing action will best enhance learning?
A) Explain the material simply using simple terms.
B) Give all explanations via commercial teaching brochures.
C) Close the door to the patient's room.
D) Ask the family not to interrupt with questions.
C
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The nurse is collecting a nursing history from a preoperative patient who is to receive local anesthesia. While taking the admission history, the patient says she is allergic to lidocaine. What is the nurse's priority action?
A) Notify the anesthesiologist. B) Cancel the surgery. C) Notify the surgeon. D) Tell the perioperative nurse.
The laboring patient who is at 3 cm dilation and 25% effaced is asking for analgesia. The nurse explains the analgesia usually is not administered prior to the establishment of the active phase. Identify the appropriate rationale for this practice
A) This would cause fetal depression in utero. B) This may prolong labor and increase complications. C) The effects would wear off before delivery. D) This can lead to maternal hypertension.
A nurse implements a program that focuses on secondary prevention. Which of the following is most likely the topic of this program?
a. Rehabilitation b. Avoidance of high-risk behaviors c. Immunization d. Mammogram
A student nurse studying hypertension would learn that the risk factors for it include what?
A) Family history, obesity, alcohol abstinence B) Cigarette smoking, heavy alcohol consumption, hepatic disease C) Prolonged stress, renal disease, heavy alcohol consumption D) High cholesterol and triglyceride levels, family history, hepatic disease