In order to provide the optimum nursing care, it is important for the nurse to know that the standard of pain and pain control is best determined by which person?
a. Physician
b. Nurse
c. Patient's family
d. Patient
D
Only the patient knows when pain occurs and what remedy relieves it.
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An important responsibility of the nurse in a mental health facility is to ensure that clients do not __________ from the facility without a discharge order, by carefully supervising and accurately documenting client behaviors and therapeutic actions
. a. Escape b. Abandon c. Flee d. Elope
The school nurse recognizes that the adverse effects of performance-enhancing substances can include what? (Select all that apply.)
a. Depression b. Dehydration c. Hypotension d. Aggressiveness e. Changes in libido
A nursing instructor is teaching about the various categories of paraphilic disorders. Which of the following categories are correctly matched with expected behaviors? Select all that apply
A. Exhibitionistic disorder: Mary models lingerie for a company that specializes in home parties. B. Voyeuristic disorder: John is arrested for peering in a neighbor's bathroom window. C. Frotteuristic disorder: Peter enjoys subway rush-hour female contact that results in arousal. D. Pedophilic disorder: George can experience an orgasm by holding and feeling shoes. E. Fetishistic disorder: Henry masturbates into his wife's silk panties.
The nurse is reviewing the medication administration record for a group of clients and recognizes that which agents have nonspecific cellular responses?Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply.
A. Ethyl alcohol B. General anesthetics C. Osmotic diuretics D. Calcium channel blockers E. Alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives