The nurse is studying client assessment data in efforts to formulate applicable nursing diagnoses. Which nurse theorist was instrumental in defining client problems that served as a foundation for the development of nursing diagnoses?
a. Joyce Travelbee c. Virginia Henderson
b. Faye Abdellah d. Josephine Paterson
ANS: B
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a. Anemia b. Dehydration c. Exhaustion d. Postpartum infection e. Failure to attach to her infant
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1. Dysgeusia 2. Parotitis 3. Stomatitis 4. Xerostomia
A mother complains that her 2-month-old baby doesn't like any sort of solid food because he pushes all solid food out of his mouth. The nurse's best response is based on the knowledge that at 2 months of age most infants:
a. Use the extrusion reflex to reject inappropriate types of food b. Will readily eat solid food in small bites c. Should be offered solid foods as an introduction to more mature eating d. Suck in portions of solid food
The wound care nurse is assessing a non-healing leg wound on a patient recently admitted for uncontrolled diabetes. The nurse organizes the data using Gordon's Functional Health Pattern of:
a. nutrition and metabolism. b. activity and exercise. c. sleep and rest. d. elimination.