What is the priority nursing diagnosis for the client with aplastic anemia who is being treated with a combination of prednisone and cyclophosphamide
A. Risk for Activity Intolerance
B. Risk for Infection
C. Risk for Injury
D. Constipation
B
Both prednisone and cyclophosphamide decrease immune function and increase the risk for in-fection.
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The patient is 24 hours post acute myocardial infarction and may have developed a ventricular septum rupture. What nursing assessment would best indicate this complication?
A) Loud holosystolic murmur B) Dyspnea and basal crackles C) Sinus tachycardia D) Pain unrelieved by nitroglycerin
The nurse is caring for a client who has lost her hair after undergoing chemotherapy treatments for cancer. How the client perceives her appearance can BEST be described as:
a. physical self c. hormonal changes b. body image d. side effect of treatments
A patient with mitral regurgitation is instructed to report to the health care provider if it becomes too difficult to perform activities of daily living. What is the nurse's rationale for providing this instruction?
1. Activity intolerance indicates acute respiratory distress. 2. The patient may have experienced a myocardial infarction. 3. These changes indicate that it is time to consider valve replacement. 4. Infective endocarditis is developing.
Which of the following is not true about the r-to-z transformation?
a. It is needed to test differences between two correlations. b. It is needed with this null hypothesis: H0: ?A ? ?B. c. It can be used to calculate confidence limits. d. It is used in power analyses.