Tag: Clinical-Nursing

When examining a patient who is paralyzed below the T4 level, the medical-surgical nurse expects to find:

For a patient with Crohn’s disease, the medical-surgical nurse recommends a diet that is

Which statement by a patient demonstrates an accurate understanding about herbal supplements?

A nursing department in an acute care setting decides to redesign its nursing practice based on a theoretical framework. The feedback from patients, families, and staff reflects that caring is a key element. Which theorist best supports this concept?

A clean-catch urine culture for an eight-year-old female patient with urinary frequency, urgency, and dysuria contains over 100,000 colonies of Escherichia coli per mL of urine. After instructing the family to safely administer the prescribed antibiotic, the pediatric nurse recommends having the patient:

The nursing diagnosis for a patient with a myocardial infarction is activity intolerance. The plan of care includes the patient outcome criterion of:

The pediatric nurse instructs parents who are concerned about the spread of illness at their children’s daycare centers to inquire about the facilities’

It is hospital policy to assess and record a patient’s pulse before administering digoxin (Lanoxin). By auditing the nursing records to determine the frequency of compliance with this policy, the quality assessment and improvement committee is conducting

A one-month-old female infant, who has developmental dysplasia of the hip, is placed in a hip spica cast. The infant’s mother expresses the desire to continue breast-feeding. The pediatric nurse’s best response is:

A medical-surgical nurse, who is caring for a patient with a new diagnosis of cancer, observes the patient becoming angry with the physicians and nursing staff. The best approach to diffuse the emotionally charged discussion is to: