What medications may be having an effect on Mr. Y's distended, bloated feeling?
Morphine sulfate.
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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.
Lazarus and Folkman's Theory of Stress and Coping has been used in nursing research to correlate the relationship between stress and anxiety in primary caregivers of patients with dementia. This is an example of which of the following?
A) Conceptual model B) Framework C) Shared theory D) Grounded theory
The nurse reading the laboratory reports for a patient with acute hepatitis is aware that an indicator supporting this diagnosis is:
a. elevated aspartate aminotransferase (AST). b. decreased alanine aminotransferase (ALT). c. decreased ?-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT). d. increased prothrombin time.
A nurse delegates the task of neonatal vital-sign assessment to a nurse technician. Which instruction will the nurse give to the technician prior to assign care?
1. Report any neonate using abdominal muscles to breathe. 2. Report any neonate with apnea for 10 seconds. 3. Count respirations for 15 seconds and multiply by 4 to get the rate for 1 minute. 4. Report any neonate with a breathing pause that lasts 20 seconds or longer.