A client is experiencing a circular lesion with an advancing, red, scaly border on the abdomen. The nurse recognizes this lesion as being:
1. tinea capitis.
2. tinea corporis.
3. tinea cruris.
4. tinea pedis.
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Tinea corporis is a fungal infection that involves the face, trunk, and limbs. Tinea pedis is a common infection of the feet. Tinea cruris occurs in the groin and inner thigh, and tinea capitis involves the scalp.
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When the fifth-grade class collected geckos in a special aquarium in the classroom, the school nurse cautioned the teacher to be alert for symptoms of ____________________ that can be carried by the reptiles
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A patient is admitted to the emergency room in hypertensive crisis. The nurse is aware that hypertensive urgency differs from hypertensive emergency in that:
A) The BP is always higher in a hypertensive emergency. B) Extremely close hemodynamic monitoring is required during treatment of hypertensive emergencies. C) Hypertensive urgency is treated with rest and tranquilizers to lower BP. D) Hypertensive emergencies are associated with evidence of target organ damage.
The husband of a 78-year-old postsurgical patient has approached the nurse, upset that his wife has become incontinent of urine during her hospital stay
The husband states that this is without precedent and he is adamant that the matter be looked into further. The nurse would recognize that which of the following factors may have contributed to this course of events? A) Age-related changes to genitourinary function B) Sensory deprivation C) Changes in diet since admission to the hospital D) Sedative effects of medications
In critiquing nominal-level instruments, the reviewer checks the items in the instrument to be sure they are:
a. mutually exclusive and exhaustive. b. precise and complete. c. stable and structured. d. valid and reliable.