A student is preparing to irrigate a patient’s wound and gathers supplies, including hydrogen peroxide. What response by the health care professional is best?
a. Help the student gather the rest of the supplies.
b. Instruct the student to dilute the hydrogen peroxide.
c. Tell the student to get some normal saline instead.
d. Ask the patient if pain medication is needed first
Ans: c. Tell the student to get some normal saline instead.
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a. Palpate tender areas last. b. Palpate tender areas first to get it over. c. Palpate tender areas before inspection. d. Palpate before auscultation.
A nurse teaches newly pregnant clients that if an ovum is fertilized and implants in the endometrium, the hormone the fertilized egg begins to secrete is:
1. Estrogen. 2. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). 3. Progesterone. 4. Luteinizing.
An overriding principle of Nightingale's writings on nursing dealt with which aspect of nursing?
a. The relationship between nurses, physicians, and society b. The relationship between patients, health, and environment c. The relationship between illness and health practices d. The relationship between hospitals, nurses, and patients
A patient who is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of an injury that completely severed the spinal cord has an open wound on the right heel. Why is this patient unaware of any pain caused from this wound?
a. The nociceptors in the heel are no longer stimulated when injury occurs. b. The patient has become completely desensitized to this type of chronic pain. c. The severed spinal cord prevents the sensation of pain from reaching the brain. d. The spinal cord injury results in chronic pain that can mask any acute pain sensation.