During an interview, the nurse discovers that the spouse of a debilitated, chronically constipated client digitally removes stool from the client's rectum. What response to disimpaction is the nurse attempting to prevent by presenting other strategies to regulate the client's bowel movements?
a. Increased pulse rate
b. Slowing of the heart
c. Dilation of the bronchioles
d. Coronary Artery Vasodilation
Ans: b. Slowing of the heart
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1/6, 1/5, 1/8, 1/4, 1/3: _______________
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a. display evidence of high self-esteem b. live in poverty and high-crime areas c. have little interest in their peers d. be noncompliant with school rules
The nurse is evaluating the client in the hospital's postanesthesia care unit (PACU) and deter-mines that the Aldrete score is 8. Based on this assessment, the nurse anticipates that the client will:
1. Be sent to the intensive care unit 2. Be discharged back to his or her room on the nursing unit 3. Remain in the PACU until the score improves 4. Return to the operating room for surgical evaluation
Working to effectively educate groups is an important community nursing skill. The components of the learning situation that need to be evaluated before designing a teaching program include
1. Evaluation of teacher's behaviors 2. Instructional objectives 3. The interest of the instructor 4. The principles of teaching