Activities the nurse could suggest to a client interested in preventing gallstone formation include which of the following?
a. Drink only bottled water.
b. Increase the amount of protein eaten each day.
c. Limit the amount of calcium in the diet.
d. Maintain a low-fat diet.
D
Health promotion activities that can help limit or prevent gallstone formation include maintaining a low-fat diet, maintaining ideal body weight, and limiting the number of one's pregnancies. Low-carbohydrate diets and physical activity also seem to help.
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The nurse is studying the history of Florence Nightingale and realizes that which of the following statements is true about Nightingale as a nursing theorist?
a. She believed that formal education was not needed for nurses. b. She developed principles of nursing that fit the modern definition of a theory. c. She considered nursing to be a calling. d. She stressed the importance of caring for the ill person rather than caring for the illness.
The nurse assesses four newborns. Which of the following assessment findings would place a newborn at risk for developing physiologic jaundice?
1. Cephalhematoma 2. Mongolian spots 3. Telangiectatic nevi 4. Molding
The nurse notes a history of a grade III heart murmur in a small infant. When assessing the heart, the nurse would expect to:
1. hear a quiet but easily heard murmur. 2. hear a moderately loud murmur without a palpable thrill. 3. hear a very loud murmur with easily palpable thrill. 4. listen without a stethoscope and hear a murmur at chest wall.
The nurse is caring for a patient recovering from a splenectomy. What should the nurse realize will occur regarding this patient's immunity?
A. The patient will have edematous lymph glands throughout his body. B. The patient will need to avoid infections every day of his life. C. The thymus gland will take over the spleen's functions. D. The liver and bone marrow will take over the spleen's functions.