Tag: Clinical-Nursing

When a child participates in a research study, the pediatric nurse’s primary concern is to ensure that the:

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?

While a cardiac/vascular nurse preceptor is orienting a graduate nurse on the telemetry unit, a patient experiences cardiac arrest. Which action by the preceptor, during the emergency cardiac care procedure, facilitates the graduate nurse’s competence and professional development?

Excessive alcohol use while on warfarin (Coumadin) therapy leads to:

A primary prevention for reducing a female patient’s risk of developing coronary heart disease is to:

A patient comes to the emergency department with reports of a swollen and painful leg but denies sustaining any injury. Physical examination reveals a tense calf muscle, decreased sensation to the foot and leg, and absent pedal pulses. The cardiac/vascular nurse asks the patient when the symptoms began, because:

Compare and contrast Health Care in the United States to that of Canada. Included should be a comparison of: history, mortality and morbidity, services, access, financing, resources, regulation

A 55-year-old patient who is diagnosed with an evolving myocardial infarction (MI) insists on going home. The cardiac/vascular nurse encourages the patient to be admitted, because the greatest risk within the first 24 hours of sustaining an MI is: