When performing a neurologic assessment of a male patient, a nurse discovers that shouting and shaking are necessary to arouse the patient enough to assess his neurologic status After the patient answers questions about who he is and squeezes the nurse's hand as requested, he returns to "sleep." How does the nurse document this patient's level of consciousness?

2 2/3 + 4 5/6 = _____

a. 6 1/2 b. 7 1/2 c. 7 5/6 d. 6 3/4

When a child is in the physician's office for a blood draw, the nurse notices that it has been several months since the child's last visit. The child is to have monthly labs for a chronic illness. What would be a rationale for this?

A) The parents have been too busy to bring the child. B) The child is afraid of having the blood drawn, so the parents do not bring him. C) The parents are having a difficult time grieving with the idea of the child's illness. D) They do not have the money to pay for multiple visits.

A possible nursing diagnosis indicates

a. a situation in which a problem could arise unless preventive action is taken b. that a problem does not yet exist, but special risk factors are present c. the client's expression of a desire to attain a higher level of wellness in some area of function d. that a problem exists

You are interviewing an elderly woman in the ambulatory setting and trying to get more information about her urinary symptoms. Which of the following techniques is not a component of adaptive questioning?

A) Directed questioning: starting with the general and proceeding to the specific in a manner that does not make the patient give a yes/no answer B) Reassuring the patient that the urinary symptoms are benign and that she doesn't need to worry about it being a sign of cancer C) Offering the patient multiple choices in order to clarify the character of the urinary symptoms that she is experiencing D) Asking her to tell you exactly what she means when she states that she has a urinary tract infection