The nurse has identified the following nursing diagnoses for his assigned patients. Of the following diagnoses, which one indicates the greatest potential need to plan for the patient's spiritual needs?
A) impaired health maintenance
B) ineffective individual coping
C) decreased adaptive capacity
D) impaired memory
B) ineffective individual coping
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The student nurse is taking a multiple-choice test and does not know the answer to a question. What should the student nurse do first?
1. Guess B, because that is the most common answer to multiple-choice questions. 2. Find answers the student knows are incorrect and rule them out. 3. Look at the answer to the previous three questions and choose an answer that was not used. 4. Find answers that are almost correct and choose one of those.
When renewing a nursing license, nurses are asked to indicate their area of specialization. This datum is measured on which scale?
a. Interval b. Nominal c. Ordinal d. Ratio
The urinalysis of a patient with acute interstitial nephritis is likely to have which characteristics?
A) Hematuria with red blood cell casts, dysmorphic red blood cells, proteinuria B) Leukocyturia with leukocyte casts or urinary eosinophils C) Renal tubular epithelial cells and muddy brown casts D) Few cells with little or no casts or proteinuria
A child is diagnosed with lymphocytopenia. Which parental statements indicate understanding of this diagnosis? Select all that apply
1. "My child may be prone to allergic reactions." 2. "My child may have trouble initiating an inflammatory response." 3. "My child may require iron supplements to treat this disorder." 4. "My child may require further testing for leukemia." 5. "My child may have been exposed to tuberculosis."