A nurse is providing home care for a patient who performs self-catheterization. The nurse would be most concerned if
1. The patient puts on gloves without washing his or her hands.
2. The patient reuses a cleaned catheter each time.
3. The patient uses clean gloves to insert the catheter.
4. The patient denies any sensation of bladder fullness before catheterization.
ANS: 1
You might also like to view...
The primiparous client at 40 weeks' gestation reports to the nurse that she has had increased pelvic pressure and increased urinary frequency. Which response by the nurse is best?
1. "Unless you have pain with urination, we don't need to worry about it." 2. "These symptoms usually mean the baby's head has descended further." 3. "Come in for an appointment today and we'll check everything out." 4. "This might indicate that the baby is no longer in a head down position."
What should be the motivation behind the evolution of advanced practice nursing becoming more autonomous?
1. The American Nurses Credentialing Center 2. The nursing profession's vision 3. Nurse leaders 4. Supply and demand
A patient tells the nurse that he is upset because his surgical wound is infected and everyone else that he knows who had the same surgery did not have the same problem. Which of the following can the nurse respond with to this patient?
1. How or why a person develops a wound infection depends upon many things such as basic health of the person, age, gender, and the organism the body is fighting. 2. There really is nothing that could be done to prevent it. 3. Maybe they did have the same problem but did not tell you. 4. At least you are in the hospital when the infection started and not at home.
Nurse managers involved in the development of the action plan for a unit understand that each objective is individualized such that:
a. Each objective has an indentified population. b. Each objective has an identified resource. c. Each objective has an identified goal. d. Each objective has been identified by the CEO.