Tag: Clinical-Nursing

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:

Which principle does the nurse manager of a pediatric unit consider when changing staff nurse-patient assignments?

Which initial question directed to the parent assists the pediatric nurse in obtaining a patient’s health history?

A pediatric nurse formulates the expected outcomes that a child and family members, who understand meal planning for type 1diabetes, will demonstrate. Which nursing intervention assists with meeting the outcomes?

With gastroesophageal reflux symptoms, the purpose of esophageal pH monitoring is evaluating for:

According to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a health care facility may release patient information without obtaining permission from the patient or family when there is a request from a:

A pediatric nurse is caring for a patient who received chemotherapy 10 days ago. Which laboratory value requires the nurse’s intervention?