The school nurse wants to use a PowerPoint presentation to educate adolescents on sexually transmitted diseases. This method of presentation relates to which aspect of communication?
a. Supplement
b. Style
c. Structure
d. Strategy
ANS: C
Structure begins with a forecast of the main ideas to capture the audience's attention and gives the audience an outline of the message. This can be done with PowerPoint presentations.
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A patient tells the nurse that she does not like to "go to the doctor" and is feeling anxious about "being in this place." When the nurse checks her blood pressure, it is elevated along with her heart rate
The nurse rechecks her blood pressure about 10 minutes later and it is normal. The patient asks the nurse if she should be concerned that she may have hypertension. What statement should guide the nurse's response? A) She should not worry; it was stress related and her regular blood pressure is good. B) The first blood pressure was part of a simple stress response; our long-term blood pressure is controlled by negative feedback systems. C) Blood pressure is only one measure of hypertension; she should review this with the doctor and plan to recheck it on a regular basis. D) The respiratory infection is the probably the cause of the elevated blood pressure, and, with treatment, her blood pressure should remain normal.
Which of the following actions by the nurse would meet the standard of care?
1. The nurse questioned a physician about a prescription where the dose was higher than the recommended dose. 2. The nurse medicated a client who reported severe chest pain with aspirin and then called the physician to get a prescription. 3. The nurse brings a breakfast tray into the client's room and puts in on the counter away from the client who is vomiting and nauseous. 4. A nurse leaving the facility at the end of the shift witnesses a client fall. The nurse calls for help and tells the other nurse that during the next shift he or she will fill out the incident report.
The rationale for the 1992 changes in the Food and Drug Administration regulations to permit accelerated approval of drugs for the treatment of life-threatening or severely debilitating disease was:
A. to allow for marketing before completion of Phase II of drug trials. B. to ensure that the unknown risks associated with early approval are balanced by the need for effective drugs. C. to change the rules because existing FDA regulations were too stringent for potentially effective drugs. D. to accelerate approval of new drugs to give physicians the option of using them without research findings.
Which of the following findings is considered an abnormal gastrointestinal assessment finding?
a. Visible peristaltic waves b. Hyper-resonance of the intestine c. High-pitched gurgling sounds in the small intestine d. Dull sounds over the liver and spleen