The nurse is caring for a malnourished patient with anorexia nervosa. For which potentially fatal health problem should the nurse monitor this patient?
1. MAOI toxicity
2. Vitamin deficiency
3. Refeeding syndrome
4. SSRI-induced suicidality
3. Refeeding syndrome
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The nurse, planning care for a client to address self-concept, realizes that this concept includes all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. self-esteem. c. identity. b. body image. d. family history.
The nurse clarifies that a subtotal thyroidectomy, which removes only two thirds of the gland, allows:
a. the patient to take minimum amounts of antithyroid drugs. b. continued production and release of thy-roid hormones from the remainder of the gland. c. the reduction of exophthalmos. d. for less postoperative risk than total thy-roidectomy.
A mother of two children,an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old,tells you that her husband has recently been deployed to the Middle East
The mother is concerned about the children's constant interest in watching TV news coverage of activities in the Middle East. The most appropriate suggestion for the nurse to make to this mother would be 1. "Allow the children to watch asmuch television as they want. This is how they are coping with their father's absence." 2. "It will just take some time to adjustto their father's absence,then everything will return to normal.""The less that you discuss this,thequicker the children will adjust to their father's absence. Try to keep them busy and use distractions to keep their mind off of it." 4. "Spend time with your children andtake cues from them about how much they want to discuss."
Which of the following nurse-family interactions is most reflective of caring for the family?
1. Offering to arrange for a sleep chair for the family's use 2. Notifying the family that the client has returned from surgery 3. Telling the family when the client's surgeon will be on the unit 4. Always being available to spend time answering the family's questions