Explain why an individual will accept a graft from his or her own body or an identical twin but not from another person
What will be an ideal response?
A graft from another person contains HLA antigens foreign to the recipient that the recipient's immune system recognizes and destroys, otherwise known as tissue rejection.
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The nurse sits at the bedside of a comatose, terminally ill older client reading the wishes ex-pressed in the numerous cards the client has received. Which concept of grief work is the nurse addressing with this intervention?
a. Everyone needs social interaction. b. The nurse needs to "attend to the patient." c. Hearing is believed to be the last sense to be lost. d. The individual is living until he or she is dead.
Your patient is experiencing shortness of breath. To relieve the symptoms in this patient, you would place your patient in what position?
A) Sitting upright leaning forward slightly B) Low Fowler's C) Prone D) Trendelenburg
Which of the following may prevent illness?
1. Adequate sleep 2. Early diagnosis 3. Stress management 4. Adequate nutrition
A secondary deficiency of a vitamin occurs when
a. dietary intake of two or more vitamins is inadequate. b. absorption is inadequate or excessive amounts are excreted. c. dietary intake is less than the physiologic need of the individual. d. the vitamin deficiency is accompanied by protein-energy malnutrition.