A client will receive hospice care under the Medicare hospice benefit. The nurse understands that which of the following is true?
A) The client denies terminal prognosis.
B) The client has a prognosis of at least 6 months of life.
C) The client chooses life-extending care.
D) The hospice acts as clinical and financial case manager.
D
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The nurse explains to a patient who has genital herpes that she may experience a prodromal signal of an impending outbreak, which most likely will include:
a. elevation in temperature. b. tingling sensation in the vagina. c. copious vaginal discharge. d. migraine-like headache.
A nurse is looking to calculate the teen pregnancy birth rate for a city. There are 62,578 young women between the ages of 15 and 19 in the city. There were 1,019 live births reported among this age group last year
What is the teen pregnancy birth rate expressed per 1,000 teen girls? Express your answer to the nearest whole number. ____________________ Fill in the blank with correct word
When a patient who takes metformin (Glucophage) to manage type 2 diabetes develops an allergic rash from an unknown cause, the health care provider prescribes prednisone (Deltasone). The nurse will anticipate that the patient may
a. need a diet higher in calories while receiving prednisone. b. develop acute hypoglycemia while taking the prednisone. c. require administration of insulin while taking prednisone. d. have rashes caused by metformin-prednisone interactions.
The nurse counsels a client who has received the ganglionic-blocking agent mecamylamine (Inversine) about side effects. Which side effect will the nurse include in the teaching session?
1. Sweating 2. Diarrhea 3. Urinary incontinence 4. Blurred vision