The nurse is caring for a critically ill patient with a very concerned family. Given that the family is under high stress, what nursing intervention will best ameliorate their stress while preserving independence?
A) Encourage the family to participate in patient care tasks.
B) Teach the family to ask questions of the healthcare team.
C) Ask the family to select a family representative for communication.
D) Limit visits to immediate family members for limited times.
B
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The physician has diagnosed her with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). She asks the nurse what causes this disease. The nurse will base her response knowing that IBD has been linked to A) liver involvement in faulty glycogen stores. B) endoplasmic reticulum stress in the gastrointestinal system. C) oversecretion of insulin from the beta cells in the pancreas. D) infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract by bacterial toxins.
What has interview research shown?
A) Intrarater reliability is high if the interview is unstructured. B) Interrater reliability improves if the interview is structured. C) Validity decreases when there is a team approach to the interview. D) Positive information is weighed more heavily than negative information.
A patient taking metronidazole (Flagyl) for asymptomatic intestinal amebiasis comments to a nurse, "My hands and feet have been falling asleep a lot recently." What action by the nurse is most appropriate?
a. Inform the patient that numbness is a common and reversible side effect of the drug. b. Encourage the patient to move the hands and feet frequently to improve circula-tion. c. Stress the need to avoid constrictive clothing and crossing the legs. d. Withhold the drug and notify the prescriber.
The nurse instructs an adolescent on preventing the sexually transmitted infection syphilis. Which statement indicates that teaching about the spread of the infection has been effective?
A) "In the future, I'll void immediately after sex to prevent this.". B) "Next time, I'll be smart enough to look at my partner to see if he has any sores.". C) "I'm lucky I got this early in life. Now, I don't have to worry about getting it again.". D) "Can't I be prescribed birth control pills so I'll have some protection from getting this again?"