A patient with a traumatic brain injury is at high risk for a secondary brain injury. What is the best nursing explanation of a secondary brain injury?
A) Result of a repeated assault incident
B) From a penetrating gunshot wound
C) Trauma inflicted by another person
D) Cerebral edema and ischemia
D
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A student nurse can cope with the stressors of test anxiety by using relaxation, behavioral changes, and support networks. Which of these processes is a work in this situation?
a. adaptive measures c. denial b. defense mechanisms d. maladaptive measures
Mental health care providers who were once employed in large state institutions and today can be found in practice settings ranging from community mental health centers to prisons are called psychiatric
1. therapists. 2. technicians. 3. nursing assistants. 4. home health care providers.
Identify the initial action that the nurse should take to treat an acute episode of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in a client with type I, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
a. Administer 50 units of regular insulin intravenously. b. Start an intravenous (IV) line of 0.45% normal saline at 150 mL per hour. c. Administer 2 amps of sodium bicarbonate. d. Ask the client if he has taken his insulin that morning.
An American Indian client has been admitted to the hospital for chemotherapy. At any given time, five family members are in the client's room. The nurse tells the client that according to hospital policy, only two visitors at a time are allowed. What does the best analysis by the nurse manager reveal about the nurse's action?
A. The nurse should have assessed the client's preferences about how many family members she wanted to be present. B. The nurse should have called the healthcare provider and obtained an order for additional family members to be present. C. This was the correct action; the nurse was following protocol by informing the client about hospital policy. D. The nurse should have allowed the client to have as many family members as she wanted to be present.