While conducting a breast health history, a patient states that there is "nothing to say"
about the breasts and then makes a comment about not realizing that it would take so many months for the milk to stop flowing in the breasts after having a baby. What should the nurse respond to the patient?
A) "It can take up to a year for the milk to stop flowing."
B) "Is it painful?"
C) "In which breast does this occur?"
D) "Are there any other symptoms occurring at this time?"
C
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A nurse is developing the teaching portion of a care plan for a patient with COPD. What would be the most important component for the nurse to emphasize?
A) Smoking up to one-half of a pack of cigarettes weekly is allowable. B) Chronic inhalation of indoor toxins can cause lung damage. C) Minor respiratory infections are considered to be self-limited and are not treated. D) Activities of daily living (ADLs) should be clustered in the early morning hours.
A patient became severely depressed when the last of her six children moved out of the home 4 months ago. Since then she has neglected to care for herself, sleeps poorly, lost weight, and repeatedly states, "No one cares about me anymore
I'm not worth anything.". Upon admission to the unit, the nursing diagnosis Situational low self-esteem related to feelings of abandonment was established. Which would be an appropriate intermediate outcome for this diagnosis? Patient will: a. make one positive comment about self daily by (date). b. agree to antidepressant medication regularly by (date). c. interact with another person for 10 minutes daily by (date). d. identify factors which increased her depression by (date).
Goals for the immediate ambulatory postoperative client differ from the immediate postoperative goals for the inpatient surgical client. The nurse should plan to evaluate for which postoperative goal in the client recovering from outpatient surgery?
1. Ability to walk without dizziness or nausea 2. Vital signs stable 3. Free of pain 4. Wound closed and not draining
Diascopy, an enhancement technique useful in examining skin lesions, consists of which of the following?
a. using a magnifying glass to evaluate lesions and discolorations for morphology b. observing for blanching after pressing a microscope slide over the skin lesion c. noting color changes of the skin lesion under ultraviolet light d. using various stains to enhance microscopic examination of skin scrapings