The postpartum client is about to go home. The nurse includes which subject in the teaching plan?
1. Replacement of fluids
2. Striae
3. Diastasis of the recti muscles
4. REEDA scale
3
Explanation: 3. Diastasis recti abdominis can be improved with exercise and abdominal muscle tone can improve significantly best taught when the mother is receptive to instruction during the postpartum assessment.
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Nursing roles associated with shifts in the delivery of psychiatric services to social and community settings would not include:
1. Leading community support groups for couples receiving genetic counseling. 2. Providing case management as part of an interdisciplinary team. 3. Participating as a member of a community board for social planning activities. 4. Providing individual therapy in a private practice setting.
When planning care, for which older patients should the nurse identify as being at risk for malnutrition as a result of hypermetabolism? Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. Patient with a fever 2. Patient with dysphagia 3. Patient with osteoporosis 4. Patient who is a vegetarian 5. Patient with chronic lung disease
The primary difference between the labor of a nullipara and that of a multipara is:
a. total duration of labor. b. level of pain experienced. c. amount of cervical dilation. d. sequence of labor mechanisms.
Which cranial nerve is the nurse testing using the technique to touch the client's face with a wisp of cotton while their eyes are closed?
A. Optic nerve (cranial nerve II). B. Abducens nerve (cranial nerve VI). C. Facial nerve (cranial nerve VII). D. Trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve V).