The healthcare team consists of personnel whose goal is to:
1. Work well together.
2. Keep healthcare costs down.
3. Restore clients' health and promote wellness.
4. Make sure the client does what each provider prescribes.
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Rationale 1: While this is expected, it is not the final goal of the team.
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A nurse is caring for a client who was prescribed high-dose corticosteroid therapy for 1 month to treat a severe inflammatory condition. The client's symptoms have now resolved and the client asks, "When can I stop taking these medications?"
How should the nurse respond? a. "It is possible for the inflammation to recur if you stop the medication." b. "Once you start corticosteroids, you have to be weaned off them." c. "You must decrease the dose slowly so your hormones will work again." d. "The drug suppresses your immune system, which must be built back up."
A critical care nurse has reported off because of an illness. In order to provide continuity of quality nursing care, the nurse manager utilizes a nurse from a (an):
1. Outside agency. 2. Unit with a low census. 3. Decentralized internal float pool. 4. Centralized external float pool.
In which instance would the nurse accept informed consent from a 13-year-old patient?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply. 1. If the child is consenting to treatment for an emergency surgery 2. If the child is consenting to treatment for a venereal disease 3. Under no circumstances can a 13-year-old give valid consent. 4. When the parents are not readily available 5. The patient is seeking treatment for drug dependency.
A community health nurse is providing an educational session on childhood poisoning at a local school. The topic of the discussion is preventive measures to avoid accidental poisoning
The nurse includes instructions that if an accidental poisoning occurs to immediately: 1. Call an ambulance. 2. Call the poison control center. 3. Induce vomiting. 4. Bring the child to the emergency department.