The young Asian wife of a businessman recently transferred to the United States is brought to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. The nurses make every effort to plan correct care
The integration of cultural concepts into the nursing care plan is known as which of the following? 1. Assimilation of culture
2. Cultural diversity
3. Enculturation of patients
4. Transcultural nursing
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The health team must be sensitive to an Asian's preference for alternative health care measures such as herbalists and medication, and also that pain is endured quietly, without complaint.
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A client is having robotic surgery. The circulating nurse observes the instruments being inserted, then the surgeon appears to "break scrub" when going to the console and sitting down. What action by the nurse is best?
a. Call a "time-out" to discuss sterile procedure and scrub technique. b. Document the time the robotic portion of the procedure begins. c. Inform the surgeon that the scrub preparation has been compromised. d. Report the surgeon's actions to the charge nurse and unit manager.
A group of student nurses is discussing cognitive changes that are considered to be normal age-related changes with the nursing instructor. Which statement by a student would indicate a need for further education from the instructor?
A) "Older clients may need information repeated to them several times." B) "Older clients may have a harder time switching their attention from one person to another if they are both speaking to the client at the same time." C) "Older clients may have difficulty in filtering out irrelevant information." D) "An older client's vocabulary may decrease with age."
Which part of the immunological system suffers the greatest damage as a result of HIV infec-tion?
a. Dendrite cells b. CD4+ T-lymphocytes c. Macrophages d. Monocytes
The nurse demonstrates knowledge of IV solutions by identifying that the IV solution which provides free water, as well as 340 calories/L, is ______________
Fill in the blanks with correct word