Your assessment of a postoperative client shows a distended abdomen, absent bowel sounds and abdominal pain 72 hours after abdominal surgery. Which do you suspect?
1. bowel obstruction
2. constipation
3. paralytic ileus
4. normal post-operative course
ANS: 3
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a. "It will help to thin my sputum." b. "It will help to widen the bronchioles." c. "It will expand collapsed alveoli." d. "It will need to be taken every other day."
Sexuality is NOT a concern of patients during childhood and old age
True False
The term bereavement is best defined as:
A) the physiologic response to a loss. B) socially conventional behavior after a loss. C) the event of death. D) the state of desolation occurring after a loss.