Which medical condition would exclude a person from sports participation?
a. Asthma
b. Fever
c. Controlled seizures
d. HIV-positive status
B
Fever can increase cardiopulmonary effort and impair exercise capacity; fever can indicate myo-carditis or other infections that make exercise dangerous.
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a. Allows for electronic data collection and analysis b. Increases the likelihood of collecting more information c. Is a substitute for possessing refined interviewing skills d. Provides automated means of choosing nursing diagnoses
Setting limits for mental health clients is important, because limits provide
1. readability and respite. 2. reliability and stability. 3. psychotherapeutic direction. 4. psychotherapeutic medications.
If a patient taking phenytoin ingests alcohol, the two substances may interact to:
a. decrease the alcohol level in the blood. b. increase the alcohol level in the blood. c. decrease the phenytoin level in the blood. d. increase the phenytoin level in the blood.
A client is in extreme pain after he was involved in a motor vehicle accident, and morphine has been ordered every hour for pain
The nurse injects saline into the client's IV line and takes the morphine for herself. The nurse is violating which principle of ethics? a. Autonomy b. Utilitarianism c. Beneficence d. Dilemmas