A certificate of need is a strategy implemented by the government to ____
a. Control the number of physicians working in the urban setting
b. Determine which patients are candidates for transplantation
c. Monitor the staffing shortages of nurses and nursing faculty
d. Regulate the types of services that are offered within a region
D
Certificates of need were implemented by the government in the 1970s to regulate the types of services in an attempt to control cost.
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The daughter of a client with terminal brain cancer wants a feeding tube placed so that the client will have nutrition to be cured of the disease. Which response should the nurse make to this daughter?
a. "What does your father want?" b. "If your father is hungry he will find a way to eat without a stomach tube." c. "Intravenous fluid contains enough nutrients to meet his nutritional needs." d. "Palliative nutrition is focused on relieving discomfort and symptoms rather than cure."
A 38-year-old black obese diabetic patient is being evaluated for the use of propranolol (Inderal) in controlling his hypertension. The nurse points out that a contraindication for that drug's use in this patient would be his:
1. race. 2. age. 3. diabetes. 4. weight.
Nurses document data and assert that the nursing action taken was appropriate. Assessing data as valid and asserting appropriate results is called
a. selection. c. description. b. synthesis. d. verification.
Which of the following medications or solutions can be administered through an intraosseous line?
A. Hypertonic drugs and fluids only B. Whole blood and cardiac medications only C. Anything that you can administer via an IV D. Normal saline and hypotonic drugs only