Which is an example of a nursing diagnosis?
a. Pneumonia
b. Diabetes mellitus
c. Impaired skin integrity
d. Congestive heart failure
C
Impaired skin integrity is the only example of a nursing diagnosis; all other options are examples of medical diagnoses.
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The nurse manager has been asked to assemble several groups to work on tasks to improve the unit's performance and client satisfaction scores. This manager would put the fewest people in a group working on which type of task?
1. Additive 2. Disjunctive 3. Divisible 4. Conjunctive
After cleaning a patient's dentures, the nurse will replace them by:
a. inserting the lower denture first. b. asking the patient to insert them. c. inserting both dentures together. d. inserting the upper denture first.
A male patient had a lipid profile completed at a community health fair, and the nurse is reviewing the results with the patient. (See lipid profile results.) What is the nurse's best response?
1. "The results for cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL are outside the acceptable normal values." 2. "The HDL is elevated, indicating you are at risk for a lipid-associated illness." 3. "The results are within normal range." 4. "The LDL is too low."
During a follow-up visit, a woman is describing new onset of marital discord with her terminally ill spouse. Using the Kübler-Ross behavioral theory, the nurse recognizes that the spouse is in which stage of dying?
a. Denial b. Bargaining c. Anger d. Depression