You are admitting an oncology patient to your unit prior to surgery. The patient has just finished radiation therapy. What does this put your patient at increased risk for?
A) Nutritional deficit
B) Impaired wound healing
C) Cardiac tamponade
D) Tumor lysis syndrome
Ans: B
Feedback: Combining other treatment methods, such as radiation and chemotherapy, with surgery also contributes to postoperative complications, such as infection, impaired wound healing, altered pulmonary or renal function, and the development of deep vein thrombosis.
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The Colorado Differentiated Practice Model for Nursing has four weighted components. Of the four to be evaluated which one carries the most weight?
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1. "I need to get started on my medications right away." 2. "My father had hypertension, did nothing, and lived to be 90-years-old." 3. "I know I need to give up my cigarettes and alcohol." 4. "I won't be able to run in the marathon race anymore."
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a. Ensuring that the mothers complied with physician prescriptions b. Referring the families to the Women, Infants, and Children program (WIC) c. Administering the immunizations required by state law d. Promoting breast-feeding e. Supervising formula preparation and feeding f. Teaching mothers how to care for and feed their infants