The home care nurse is examining a three-day-old infant. The child's skin on the sternum is yellow when blanched with a finger. The parents ask the nurse why jaundice occurs. The best response from the nurse is:
A. "The liver of an infant is not fully mature, and doesn't conjugate the bilirubin for excretion."
B. "The infant received too many red blood cells after delivery because the cord was not clamped immediately."
C. "The yellow color of your baby's skin indicates that you are breastfeeding too often."
D. "This is an abnormal finding related to your baby's bowels not excreting bilirubin as they should."
A
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a. decreased urine output. b. increased blood pressure. c. jugular vein distension. d. shortness of breath.
The nurse bases individual nursing practice upon commitment to quality patient care and understanding of the nursing role. Under which broad classification of ethical theory does this fall?
1. Teleological theories 2. Deontological theories 3. Utilitarian theories 4. Applied theories
One of the GLOBE cultural dimensions, power distance, is defined as the degree to which members of a group favor strategic physical distance close to or away from others
a. True b. False
A patient recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus questions the nurse about her increased thirst level. What should be included in the response by the nurse?
a. Diabetes results in a lack of protein ab-sorption causing reduced amino acids, re-sulting in thirst. b. Elevated levels of blood glucose pull cel-lular water into circulating volume. c. Thirst results from the body's increased loss of fluids through polyuria. d. Appetites of both food and water signal the changes of diabetes.