An older adult interested in nutrition asks the community health nurse about the number of calories that he should eat every day. Which of the following would be most appropriate?
A) 800 to 1,200 calories
B) 1,200 to 1,600 calories
C) 1,600 to 2,000 calories
D) 2,000 to 2,400 calories
B
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What is the best method for the quality improvement nurse to determine what the appropriate action by the nurse should have been? 1. Call the nurse manager of the Labor and Delivery unit and ask what the nurse should have done. 2. Ask the departmental chair of the obstetrical physicians what the best nursing action should have been. 3. Examine other charts to find cases of the same complication, and determine how it was handled in those situations. 4. Look in the policy and procedure book, and examine the practice guidelines published by a professional nursing organization.
Which of the four phases of pharmacokinetics is concerned with solubility?
a. Absorption b. Distribution c. Biotransformation d. Elimination
A client is admitted for acute symptoms of asthma and lung inflammation. The nurse would expect this client to be prescribed:
1. Asmanex. 2. Atrovent. 3. Slo-Bid. 4. Xenopenex.
For which of the following reasons must a patient keep his or her chemotherapy medications in a locked cabinet?
A. these medications are very costly B. these medications are very toxic C. these medications have narcotic effects D. these medications are hard to replace monthly