The nurse is helping a 57-year-old patient design an exercise plan to achieve weight loss goals. What does the nurse calculate this patient's target heart rate to be?
Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number.
Correct Answer: 163
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The nurse has admitted a patient who is scheduled for a thoracic resection. The nurse is providing preoperative teaching and is discussing several diagnostic studies that will be required prior to surgery
Which study will be performed to determine whether the planned resection will leave sufficient functioning lung tissue? A) Pulmonary function studies B) Exercise tolerance tests C) Arterial blood gas values D) Chest x-ray
The physician signs a verbal order and reprimands the nurse for incorrectly wording the order. The physician instructs the nurse to go back and insert the missing information. Which of the following is the nurse's best response?
a. Use a black pen and insert the missing information. b. Insist that the physician write a new order. c. Write an addendum clarifying the order. d. Toss the old order and write a new one.
When assessing a healthy adult, the nurse would expect an inspiratory:expiratory (I:E) ratio of:
A) 1:2. B) 1:3. C) 1:4. D) 1:5.
A nurse calls a physician regarding a patients increased output to a surgical JP drain. She relays the following information: " The patient has had 600 cc of serosanguineous drainage from his JP drain over the last 2 hours : the previous 8 hours shift has a total of 160 cc. He is post op day #1 for a prostatectomy. He has had no increase in pain but is now hypotensive with a BP of 100/64 and a HR of 98. I think he has a urine leak. " What is missing from this SBAR communication?
A. situation B. background C, Assessment D. Recommendations.