The nurse is going to initiate continuous subcutaneous opioid analgesia for a terminally ill client with poorly managed pain. Which site is the best choice to establish a continuous sub-cutaneous infusion?
A. Either foot
B. Nondominant arm
C. Nondominant hand
D. Just below the clavicle
D
Extremities are avoided to prevent the need for restricted movement. In addition, in terminally ill clients, circulation often is impaired or edema is present. Both situations reduce the uptake of the medication.
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Which indicates why the use of power is important to nursing?
1. The nurse manager can use it to evaluate staff. 2. The nurse can better impact and improve client care. 3. The RN can better supervise unlicensed personnel. 4. Power enables the nurse to ethically treat the agitated patient.
The nurse is percussing over the client's symphysis pubis area and notes a dull tone. The nurse understands that this represents which of the following?
1. The right kidney 2. A full bladder 3. A bladder tumor 4. Air trapped in the intestines
The patient confides that her husband shares only the incidental happenings of his day at work as he reads the paper, but he never tells her that he loves her any more. She is begin-ning to wonder if their marriage is getting stale
The nurse recognizes this communication pattern as: 1. affective. 2. affectional. 3. functional. 4. dysfunctional.
Providing maternity nursing care based on knowledge gained through research and clinical trials is:
1. derived from the Nursing Interventions Classification. 2. known as evidence-based practice. 3. is at odds with the Cochrane School of traditional nursing. 4. an outgrowth of telemedicine.