A nurse performs an environmental assessment on the home of a family who is caring for an elderly client being discharged following a stroke. The primary consideration of this environmental assessment is to identify
A) barriers to care.
B) safety concerns.
C) general condition of the home.
D) any environmental concerns.
B
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Which statement describes the way in which most groups are formed?
1. Members with common goals come together and start working on the group?s tasks. 2. People in the group work toward a common understanding of the purpose and member roles. 3. The informal leaders of the group make sure everyone knows the purpose to avoid conflict. 4. Relationship building is not necessary as the group forms because members already work together.
When a nurse realizes that a medication error has occurred, the nurse should take which of the following steps? (Select all that apply.)
a. Immediately check the patient and determine if the error poses a risk to the patient's condition. If so, notify the physician immediately. b. Try to find someone to blame for the error. c. Notify the nursing supervisor. d. Analyze how and why the error occurred, and how it might be avoided in the future. e. Record in the patient's chart exactly what happened and fill out any other required (incident/medication error) reports.
The patient is about to have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to diagnose a soft tissue abnormality of the lower leg. About which finding should the nurse immediately notify the physician?
1. The patient has a concern about what will be found on the MRI. 2. The patient has a pacemaker. 3. The patient has a history of hypertension. 4. The patient did not eat breakfast due to earlier nausea.
What is the purpose of the DSM-V?
a. It provides a detailed list of clinical psychiatric disorders. b. It details data and statistics about mental disorders in the United States. c. It serves as the official American resource manual detailing diagnostic criteria of psychiatric disorders. d. It acts as a compendium of the international demographics of substance abuse and mental disorders.