When conducting a mental health examination, for what should the nurse carefully assess as signs of depression in an older, recently widowed patient? (Select all that apply.)
A) Sleep disorder
B) Difficulty making decisions
C) Anhedonia
D) Family violence
E) Firearms in the home
A, B, C
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1. children. 2. adolescents. 3. older adults. 4. middle-aged adults.
An adolescent shares with the nurse that he is gay and that he is going to tell his parents. The nurse knows that parental response to the disclosure of homosexuality is strongly influenced by the: (Select all that apply.)
1. Strength of traditional gender role conceptions. 2. Perceptions of the probable attitudes of significant others in the family's network. 3. Parental age. 4. Parental education. 5. Parental race.
The physician diagnoses a 3-cm cyst in the ovary of a 28-year-old woman. You expect the initial treatment to include:
a. Beginning hormone therapy. b. Examining the woman after her next menstrual period. c. Scheduling a laparoscopy to remove the cyst. d. Aspirating the cyst and sending the fluid to pathology.
Prescribed is 1 gram of vancomycin in 500 mL IV to infuse over two hours through a central venous access catheter. The nurse understands that the IV infusion pump should be set at ________________________________________
What will be an ideal response?