A patient with mitral valve prolapse has been admitted to the CCU with probable infectious endocarditis. What physical changes unique to infectious endocarditis will the nurse be most likely to find?
A) Track marks on arms following peripheral veins
B) New onset of or change in cardiac murmur
C) Severe midsternal crushing chest pain with activity
D) Fever, tachycardia, and general malaise
B
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a. Second-degree AV block b. Positive symptoms c. Hypertension d. Tachypnea
You have been asked to identify epidemiologic transitions in the community. Using your knowledge about your community, what is an example of an epidemiologic transition?
A) High fertility and high mortality, resulting in slow population growth B) Improvement in hygiene and nutrition, leading to a decreased burden of infectious disease C) High and fluctuating mortality, due to poor health, epidemics, and famine D) Mortality declines, and fertility later declines
A client asks the nurse what is the name of the structure of the eye that is colored.
A. Optic disc. B. Cornea. C. Iris. D. Sclera.
Mrs. Baconer has recently traveled to an undeveloped country and now has severe abdominal cramping and diarrhea. Her health care provider has ordered a stool specimen to test for pathogens and parasites. As her nursing assistant, how do you get a stool specimen into the specimen container?
A. Tip the bedpan to the side and drop the feces from the bedpan into the specimen container. B. Wearing gloves, use a wooden tongue blade to remove the feces from the bedpan and transfer it to the container. C. Ask the patient to hold the specimen container and to defecate into it instead of into the bedpan. D. Use the specimen container as a scoop for transferring the feces from the bedpan into the container.