During your assessment you notice a pulsation in A.H.'s upper abdomen, slightly left of the midline, between the umbilicus and the xiphoid process
True or False: You will need to palpate this mass as part of your physical assessment. Explain your answer.
False. If a pulsating abdominal mass is noted, you might gently auscultate it for a bruit, but do not
palpate the mass! It might be tender, but more important, there is a risk of rupture of the aneurysm
with palpation.
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A. Administer pain medication 30 minutes prior to breastfeeding. B. Encourage ambulation. C. Have the woman lie prone with a pillow under her stomach. D. Offer the woman information on commercial baby formula. E. Prepare a sitz bath for the woman after she has breastfed.
An effective method to decrease absenteeism is to increase a nurse?s responsibility because a person with:
1. An important job realizes others depend on them. 2. Additional duties may fear termination. 3. Higher responsibilities will have less stress. 4. Less responsibility is always less motivated.
A nurse is working in a temporary shelter for victims following a natural disaster. Which condi-tion is the nurse most likely to encounter?
a. Stress b. Communicable disease c. Depression d. Injuries requiring first aid
What should the nurse anticipate the labor pattern for a fetal occiput posterior position to be?
1. Precipitous 2. Rapid during transition 3. Shorter than average during the latent phase 4. Prolonged with regard to the overall length of labor