A 55-year-old trauma patient who hit the steering wheel and has a pulmonary contusion requires mechanical ventilation. Which of the following is NOT a potential complication of this injury?
A. Flail chest
B. Hemothorax
C. Pericardial tamponade
D. Pneumonia
Answer: A. Flail chest
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The nurse is caring for a client with recurrent urinary tract infections. Which of the following body structures would the nurse instruct as the most frequent cause of women's urinary tract infections?
A) The urethra B) The bladder C) The rectum D) The ureters
Patients in an outpatient treatment center receiving daily dressing changes were studied by means of a quasi-experimental design using a crossover strategy
Patients were administered either Morphine Contin or Percocet, by random assignment, on one day, and the other medication on the following day. Pain scores were obtained for both days, recorded and analyzed. Why was a crossover strategy used? (Select all that apply.) a. Because dressing changes may become less painful in some patients over time, as wounds heal, this strategy balanced the pain scores, across participants. b. Because dressing changes may become more painful over time, as debridement occurs, exposing raw tissue, this strategy balanced the pain scores, across participants. c. Because patients were not consented for the study and had to receive at least one traditional treatment. d. Because dressing changes may become less painful over time, as patients know what to expect, this strategy compensated by alternating first-treatment across patients.
The potential exists for a complaint of sexual harassment if a nurse states which of the following? Select all that apply
1. "Would you please help me with one of my female patients? She is uncomfortable asking me to assist her to the restroom." 2. "If I take your patient in Room 203 her pain medication, what are you going to do for me?" 3. "When my patient's physician arrives on the floor, let me know. I would like to make rounds with him." 4. "Could you help me with my patient? She's very large and difficult to get up." 5. "Male nurses never carry their weight. I think they use the fact that a female patient won't let them catheterize them as an excuse so they don't have to put in a Foley catheter."
An older adult female patient who has multiple sexual partners asks the nurse if the risk for contracting HIV really does increase as we age. The nurse shows the best understanding of this risk when responding
a. "Any time one engages in sex with mul-tiple partners, the risk for contracting HIV increases." b. "Changes in vaginal tissue and immune function increase the risk, especially if sex is unprotected." c. "Unless you are engaging in unprotected oral sex, your risk does not increase sub-stantially." d. "Yes, your risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD) including HIV, dramatically increases as you age."