A 16-year-old is making her first prenatal visit to the clinic in her fourth month of pregnancy. What is the nurse's first responsibility?
1. Contact the social worker.
2. Develop a trusting relationship.
3. Schedule the client for prenatal classes.
4. Teach the client about proper nutrition.
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Explanation: 2. Developing a trusting relationship with the pregnant adolescent is essential. Honesty and respect for the individual and a caring attitude promote the client's self-esteem.
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Gerontological nursing will become an increasingly important profession, compared with in the past, because:
A) More people will be presenting with the same health care challenges B) More elderly are living in increasingly squalid living conditions C) A greater number of people are surviving the previously hazardous period of infancy D) More people are spending a longer time span in old age
A nurse understands that fluid balance is mainly monitored in the body by which two systems?
a. Circulatory and renal b. Respiratory and circulatory c. Renal and gastrointestinal d. Hepatic and lymphatic
The nurse explains to a concerned family member of a client who has developed respiratory acidosis that the kidneys
a. achieve optimal compensation immediately. b. are unable to compensate. c. can achieve optimal compensation in about 3 days. d. will compensate within 24 hours.
Which scenario is an example of correct delegation?
1. The nurse asks the unlicensed assistant to bathe a patient before surgery. 2. The nurse asks the unlicensed assistant if a patient tolerated ambulating in the hall. 3. The nurse instructs the unlicensed assistant to check the patient's lung sounds for crackles. 4. The nurse asks the unlicensed assistant to see if the patient's hourly urine output is adequate.