Inflammation of a vein is called __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Phlebitis
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The nursing student is giving a bath to a client on the first clinical day. The physician arrives and removes a wound dressing, and tells the student to redress the wound. Which of the following actions should the student take?
1. Tell the doctor that wound dressings have not been covered in class yet. 2. Cover the wound with gauze. 3. Perform the dressing change. 4. Seek assistance from the instructor or nurse assigned to the client.
For a client admitted to the hospital with chronic venous disease, the nurse's assessment of the client's legs would most likely reveal
a. decreased pulses. b. erythema. c. overgrowth of hair. d. reduced muscle mass.
Surgical placement of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt is used to treat
a. hyponatremia. b. intracerebral hemorrhage. c. spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. d. hydrocephalus.
After being diagnosed with cataracts, the client tells the nurse that she believes the right eye has a cataract but not her left since her vision is fine with the left eye
With which of the following statements should the nurse respond to this client? 1. "Your physician must have made an error.". 2. "Only your physician can tell if you have a cataract in your left eye.". 3. "Cataracts develop at different rates, so one eye will be more affected than the other.". 4. "Don't worry about it until you can't see out of your left eye.".