The nurse determines that a female client understands how to perform breast self-examination when the client states
A) "The best time to perform the exam is 1 week after my period."
B) "I should use my whole hand to feel for lumps and only at the nipple."
C) "I should palpate the breast in a random manner with my thumb."
D) "Dimples around the nipple are normal and increase with age."
Ans: A
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a. critical events c. incident reports b. exception charting d. variances
A young man has been diagnosed with hemophilia and the nurse is planning his discharge teaching and includes what teaching point?
A) Using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for mild pain B) Preventing trauma to the body C) Receiving IV factor VIII therapy at home D) Understanding the condition is an X-linked recessive disorder
The family of an older patient who is terminally ill wants to know if the patient can have a massage to help with the pain. How should the nurse respond to the family? Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. "It might reduce the patient's anxiety." 2. "It might help reduce the patient's pain." 3. "It might help the patient breathe better." 4. "It could help improve the patient's mood." 5. "It could cause the patient more discomfort."
Swanson states that her original research focus for her dissertation was to study what it was like for women to experience miscarriage. However, she changed her area of focus when
A. After hearing a lecture by a physician, she became interested in medical causes of miscarriage. B. Her work in an NICU with premature neonates stimulated an interest in premature labor and miscarriage. C. Her dissertation chair, Dr. Jean Watson, suggested the need to examine caring within the context of miscarriage. D. She became interested in the topic after learning that there is a one-in-six chance that a pregnant woman will miscarry.