A patient is diagnosed with postrenal acute kidney injury (AKI). What should the nurse suspect caused this patient's type of kidney injury?
A. Hypovolemia
B. Sepsis
C. Drug toxicity
D. Benign prostatic hypertrophy
Answer: D
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A person comes to the Emergency Department seeking medical care for symptoms of an illness. What will legitimize the illness for the patient?
A. The health care profession that diagnoses the illness B. The insurance company that pays for the illness treatment C. Society's view of the illness D. The person having the illness
When interviewing an applicant for a position, the nurse manager describes the unit's care delivery system as one in which each nursing assistant is cross-trained to perform specific tasks, and the RNs do all treatment, medication administration,
and discharge teaching. The nurse ap-plicant knows this nursing care delivery strategy to be: a. The case method. b. Functional nursing. c. Primary nursing. d. Nurse case management.
The nurse is caring for a patient during continuous renal replacement therapy. What interventions would the nurse perform at this time? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected
Select all that apply. 1. Monitor vital signs every half hour. 2. Administer replacement fluid as determined by the hourly fluid balance goal. 3. Assess partial thromboplastin time every 1 to 2 hours. 4. Warm the dialysate to body temperature. 5. Inspect the dialysate return.
Gastric ulcers are defects in the mucous membrane which are exposed to digestive juices
True False