A patient experiencing massive amounts of bloody diarrhea from the rectum is diagnosed with inflammation of the mucosa and submucosa after a colonoscopy and biopsy. The nurse prepares to provide care for a patient with which condition?
1. Ulcerative colitis
2. Crohn disease
3. Arteriovenous malformation
4. Polyps
Answer: 1
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While assessing a female patient from the Middle East, the nurse observes that the patient makes no eye contact and answers questions by nodding or with only a few words
The nurse's entry in the patient's record states that the patient "appears to be frightened." This is an example of which factor associated with assessment? 1. Personal interpretation 2. Subjective data 3. Nursing diagnosis 4. Objective data
A male patient looks at the medication in the cup and tells the nurse that he does not take one of the tablets. Which action should the nurse take next?
a. Tell the patient that the medications are correct. b. Recheck the medication and the medica-tion order. c. Call the pharmacy to bring the correct medication. d. Remove the medication and document the incident.
Which of these findings, when evaluating another nurse developing a plan of care, should the charge nurse recognize as a source of diagnostic error?
a. Assigning diagnoses while completing the database b. Assigning a documented nursing diagnosis of Risk for infection for a patient on intravenous antibiotics c. Completing the interview before performing the physical examination d. Documenting cultural and religious preferences
For which reason during early pregnancy does frequent urination occur?
A) Pressure on the bladder from the uterus B) Increased concentration of urine C) Addition of fetal urine to maternal urine D) Decreased glomerular selectivity