The pediatric nurse working in a community health care center is aware of the new trends in family and child nursing. Which of the following statements accurately reflects one of these trends?
A) Nursing care for mothers, families, and children focuses on providing generalized and basic care.
B) The current body of knowledge supports longer hospital stays with decreased outpatient services.
C) Despite the complexity of issues, the biggest demand of families is for more advanced scientific and technological care.
D) Advances in knowledge have supported a healthier lifestyle but have also contributed to difficult issues that nurses face in providing safe and competent nursing care.
D
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1. Impaired mobility 2. An increase in cardiac output 3. Increased diuresis 4. Tissue necrosis
The nurse is reading about family development theory and realizes that Duvall's theory is limited because it assumed that:
a. each family unit has a developmental process with expected tasks to be achieved at each developmental stage. b. the healthy family will have achieved specific developmental tasks. c. the nuclear family is the standard by which all other families are assessed. d. the way in which a family achieves tasks of development greatly influence the family's ability to handle subsequent developmental issues.
Atypical presentation of acute coronary syndrome is
A. Most common in Hispanic females B. More common in men C. Most common in African American men D. More common in females
Patients receiving heparin therapy require monitoring of:
1. Platelets every 2 to 3 days for thrombocytopenia that may occur on day 4 of therapy 2. Electrolytes for elevated potassium levels in the first 24 hours of therapy 3. INR throughout therapy to stay within the range of 2.0 4. Blood pressure for hypertension that may occur in the first 2 days of treatment