Hyperextension is:
a. Bending a body part
b. Straightening a body part
c. The excessive straightening of a body part
d. A brief loss of consciousness
C
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The nurse admitting a patient with significant burns to the emergency department notes the presence of symptoms consistent with an inhalation burn. Which finding is the nurse most likely noting?
a. Full-thickness burns to chest b. Hypotension c. Agitation d. Persistent coughing
A patient develops a fever, rash, joint and muscle pain, and swollen lymph nodes after receiving a sulfonamide for a urinary tract infection (UTI). The nurse anticipates providing care for which condition?
1. Serum sickness 2. Worsening of the infection 3. Respiratory involvement from systemic release of pathogens 4. Subacute rheumatoid arthritis from increased serum uric acid
During a phone follow-up conversation with a woman who is 4 days postpartum, the woman tells the nurse, "I don't know what is wrong. I love my son, but I feel so let down
I seem to cry for no reason!" The nurse would recognize that the woman is experiencing: 1. taking-in. 2. postpartum depression. 3. postpartum blues. 4. attachment difficulty.
Maintenance of physiologic equilibrium within the body is known as
a. hemostasis. b. homeostasis. c. water balance. d. metabolic regulation.