The nurse caring for a child with meningitis would plan care to minimize disturbing the child unnecessarily as these children are extremely sensitive to stimuli that may initiate a __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Seizure
Children with meningitis are sensitive to stimuli that may cause a seizure.
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A nurse is administering a shock from an automated external defibrillator to a client with cardiac arrest. Which of the following is the most important action that the nurse should perform immediately prior to administering the shock?
A) Give five rescue breaths. B) Say, "Everybody clear." C) Place both hands correctly on the client's chest. D) Ensure that emergency medications are accessible.
A nurse has auscultated the abdomen in all four quadrants for 5 minutes and has not heard any bowel sounds. How would this be documented?
A) "Auscultated abdomen for bowel sounds, bowel not functioning." B) "All four abdominal quadrants auscultated. Inaudible bowel sounds." C) "Bowel sounds auscultated. Patient has no bowel sounds." D) "Patient may have bowel sounds, but they can't be heard."
The nurse is conducting a group education session for clients who have been diagnosed with depression. The nurse evaluates the education as effective when a client makes which comments about the cause of depression?
Standard Text: Select all that apply. 1. "Depression results from parents who are cold and distant and don't really care about their children." 2. "Depression results from unresolved conflicts in your childhood." 3. "We really don't know what causes depression; it has not been studied very much." 4. "Depression can be an inherited illness." 5. "Depression has many causes; they could include environmental as well as brain-based disorders."
The period of contraction of the heart muscle when blood is ejected from the atria into the ventricles, and from the ventricles into the arteries is called
A) Diastole B) Conductivity C) Repolarization D) Systole