A patient is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 102 pounds, and is constantly worried about getting "too fat" and is refusing to eat. The nurse assesses that the patient is suffering from:
1. bulimia.
2. anorexia nervosa.
3. malabsorption.
4. peptic ulcer.
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-imposed starvation.
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The nurse cares for a client with liver failure and monitors the client for hepatic encephalopathy. Which findings does the nurse recognize as the earliest signs of hepatic encephalopathy? Select all that apply.
A) Restlessness B) Confusion C) Disorientation D) Agitation E) Impaired judgment
The nurse is attending a master's degree program in efforts to be educationally prepared to serve as a hospital leader. The nurse realizes that this educational preparation will:
1. hinder the nurse's ability to work with physicians. 2. be viewed as not supporting the profession of nursing by other nurses. 3. ensure the nurse is biased towards clinicians' interests. 4. prepare the nurse to serve as strong clinical support with the ability to integrate business and caring.
A client says to the nurse, "I'm really phobic about flying, so my husband and I always drove or took the train everywhere. Now he's been offered a big job in Europe, and if I don't get over this and fly with him, he says we're done. I'll be left to bring up our three children by myself." Which statement by the nurse would be therapeutic?
A. "No problem. You can be hypnotized to sleep through your trip." B. "I'm interested that it took his threat of leaving you to motivate you to seek help." C. "You seem more anxious and afraid of raising three children alone than of flying." D. "I can teach you strategies to help master your panic. An anti-anxiety medicine would also help you."
The patient asks the nurse to irrigate both ear canals to improve hearing and comfort. The patient has bilateral brown ear drainage and a history of a right mastoidectomy and perforation of the left tympanic membrane
Which intervention should the nurse implement first? a. Inform the patient that the ears are in-fected. b. Perform an otoscopic examination of the canals. c. Collaborate with the audiologist about a hearing aid. d. Irrigate the ear canals with warm saline solution.