A patient asks to see his medical record (chart). How would the nurse respond?
A) "I can't let you do that without a doctor's order."
B) "Our hospital policy is that you can't do that."
C) "I will get your chart and provide you with privacy to read it."
D) "Why would you want to do that? It will only make you worry."
C
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a. They become acidic. b. They become alkaline. c. Oxygen ions are released into the blood. d. Carbon ions are retained.
While the nurse examines a patient's pupillary response to light in the right eye, the pupil in the left eye is constricted. What does this finding suggest to the nurse?
A) Myopia B) Presbyopia C) Direct reaction D) Consensual reaction
Your supervising nurse asks you to prepare your patient for an enema. You need to position your patient in a partly side-lying, partly prone position for this procedure. This body position is called
A. Sims'. B. Fowler's. C. Trendelenburg. D. Supine.
You are working as the triage nurse in the emergency department at a busy tertiary care center. a woman
comes in complaining of very heavy vaginal bleeding and extreme pain. S.K. is single, is 47 years of age, and has been bleeding for 24 hours, soaking a pad an hour. She works in a law firm as a paralegal and was embarrassed yesterday when she leaked around her pad and stained a chair in the conference room. She has two sexual partners currently and has been relying on condoms for birth control. She thinks her last menstrual period was 2 months ago, but they have been irregular and she is not sure. She has had some occasional spotting during the past 6 months. She states she is afraid of the amount of bleeding in the past 24 hours. Identify three conditions that would require emergency care and could prove life-threatening.