An instructor teaches a class about nursing theories and models. The instructor determines that the class needs additional instruction when they describe middle-range theories as which of the following?
A) Highly abstract theories
B) Theories that can be tested
C) Precursors to practice-based theories
D) Theories that followed grand theories
A
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A patient is admitted to the critical care unit after sustaining a head injury. Based on the injury, it is determined that there is a decrease in ADH. Which of the patient's symptoms would alert the medical team to a possible decrease in ADH?
a. Rapidly escalating hypertension c. Pulmonary edema b. Massive diuresis d. Hyperkalemia
The occupational nurse has sponsored and taught first aid classes to workers throughout the factory. If a person, taught by the nurse, makes an error in providing first aid that causes further injury, does the nurse hold any liability?
1. No, all liability is on the person who made the error. 2. No, the liability is on the person who caused the original accident causing the need for first aid. 3. Yes, the nurse holds all the liability. 4. Perhaps the nurse may hold liability depending upon circumstances.
Early this morning, an infant boy was circumcised using the PlastiBell method. The nurse tells the mother that she and the infant can be discharged after:
a. The bleeding stops completely. b. Yellow exudate forms over the glans. c. The PlastiBell rim falls off. d. The infant voids.
A physician has changed a child's asthma medication to salmeterol (Serevent). The mother asks the nurse what this drug will do. The nurse should explain that salmeterol (Serevent) is used to treat asthma because the drug:
1. Is an anti-inflammatory. 2. Decreases mucus production. 3. Controls allergic rhinitis. 4. Is a bronchodilator.