The total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language is:
a. Braille
b. Cerumen
c. Aphasia
d. Tinnitus
C
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The nursing diagnosis that would not be made for a client having experienced a situational crisis is:
1. Risk for Loneliness. 2. Risk for Self-directed Violence. 3. Spiritual Distress. 4. Impaired Social Interaction.
Within an energy field perspective, nurses in mutual process assist clients in
A. Negotiating their plan of care. B. Actualizing their field potentials by enhancing their ability to participate knowingly in change. C. Being supported until the client can perform self-care. D. Client-centered cooperative decision-making.
A client has chosen to discontinue hemodialysis. His family is not supportive of his decision. The nurse who uses the theory of principles-based reasoning would make which of the following statements?
1. "This client is of sound mind and is capable of making his own decisions regarding health care. It really is his decision to make." 2. "I need to try and help the family understand the client's decision so they can work through this situation together." 3. "This client's health is so deteriorated that the treatment is not saving his life. It is prolonging the ultimate outcome, which is his death." 4. "The client understands his decision and the advanced stage of his disease. If he quits treatment, he will die."
When the male patient who has been on long-term antibiotic therapy inquires what may have caused his thrush, the nurse's most informative response would be that the yeast infection occurred because:
a. of a vitamin A deficiency. b. long-term antibiotic therapy has destroyed the normal flora of his mouth. c. he has developed an allergy to the antibiotic. d. oral hygiene has been inadequate.