Persons with disabilities have often been defined by their illness or disability. Defining someone by their disease or disability is devaluing and disrespectful. Which of the following is the correct way to refer to someone with a disability?
1. A handicapped person
2. A person with an amputation
3. An amputee
4. A wheelchair-bound afflicted person
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The correct way to address someone is a "person with" and not label a person according to their disability as in choice No. 3.
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The nurse is caring for a client who has returned for the operating room following a nephrectomy. When providing care, the nurse's priority would be to:
1. ambulate the client as soon as the client recovers from anesthesia. 2. assess urine output hourly. 3. monitor the client for a low-grade fever. 4. give the client a bath on return to the unit.
The Apgar score of an infant 5 minutes after birth is 8. Which is the nurse's best interpretation of this?
a. Resuscitation is likely to be needed. b. Adjustment to extrauterine life is adequate. c. Additional scoring in 5 more minutes is needed. d. Maternal sedation or analgesia contributed to the low score.
A nurse is caring for a patient with pneumonia. The patient's oxygen saturation is below normal. What abnormal respiratory process does this demonstrate?
A) changes in the alveolar-capillary membrane and diffusion B) alterations in the structures of the ribs and diaphragm C) rapid decreases in atmospheric and intrapulmonic pressures D) lower-than-normal concentrations of environmental oxygen
Ally, a health care professional, is discussing the use of the botulinumtoxin for cosmetic purposes with her friend, Jennifer. When Jennifer asks Ally for her advice on undergoing Botox therapy, which of the following points will Ally most likely state?
A. People who are hypersensitive to human albumin should not undergo Botox therapy. B. Using botulinum toxin is very safe and has no adverse side effects. C. People with respiratory problems cannot undergo Botox therapy. D. The botulinum toxin does not spread to other areas of the body from the site of injection.