A nurse is giving a client a bed bath. which nursing action is most important?
2. When bathing a patient’s extremities, the nurse should use long, firm strokes from the distal to the proximal areas. This technique:
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3. Vivid dreaming occurs in which stage of sleep?
4. The natural sedative in meat and milk products (especially warm milk) that can help induce sleep is:
5. Nursing interventions that can help the patient to relax and sleep restfully include all of the following except:
6. Restraints can be used for all of the following purposes except to:
7. Which of the following is the nurse’s legal responsibility when applying restraints?
8. Kubler-Ross’s five successive stages of death and dying are:
9. A terminally ill patient usually experiences all of the following feelings during the anger stage except:
10. Nurses and other health care provides often have difficulty helping a terminally ill patient through the necessary stages leading to acceptance of death. Which of the following strategies is most helpful to the nurse in achieving this goal?
11. Which of the following symptoms is the best indicator of imminent death?
12. A nurse caring for a patient with an infectious disease who requires isolation should refers to guidelines published by the:
13. To institute appropriate isolation precautions, the nurse must first know the:
14. Which is the correct procedure for collecting a sputum specimen for culture and sensitivity testing?
15. An autoclave is used to sterilize hospital supplies because:
16. The best way to decrease the risk of transferring pathogens to a patient when removing contaminated gloves is to:
17. After having an I.V. line in place for 72 hours, a patient complains of tenderness, burning, and swelling. Assessment of the I.V. site reveals that it is warm and erythematons. This usually indicates:
18. To ensure homogenization when diluting powdered medication in a vial, the nurse should:
19. The nurse is teaching a patient to prepare a syringe with 40 units of U-100 NPH insulin for self-injection. The patient’s first priority concerning self-injection in this situation is to:
20. The physician’s order reads “Administer 1 g cefazolin sodium (Ancef) in 150 ml of normal saline solution in 60 minutes.” What is the flow rate if the drop factor is 10 gtt = 1 ml?
21. A patient must receive 50 units of Humulin regular insulin. The label reads 100 units = 1 ml. How many milliliters should the nurse administer?
22. How should the nurse prepare an injection for a patient who takes both regular and NPH insulin?
23. A patient has just received 30 mg of codeine by mouth for pain. Five minutes later he vomits. What should the nurse do first?
24. A patient is characterized with a #16 indwelling urinary (Foley) catheter to determine if:
25. A staff nurse who is promoted to assistant nurse manager may feel uncomfortable initially when supervising her former peers. She can best decrease this discomfort by:
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