NEW QUESTION 14
The patient with liver cirrhosis receives 100 ml of 25% serum albumin intravenously. Which of the following findings would best indicate that the albumin is having its desired effect?

NEW QUESTION 15
The patient has a nursing diagnosis of altered cerebral tissue perfusion related to cerebral edema. An appropriate nursing intervention for this problem is to:

NEW QUESTION 16
A patient is to receive 2.5mg of morphine sulfate. The ampoule contains l000mcg/mL. How much morphine should the nurse administer?

NEW QUESTION 17
During the initial pain assessment process, the nurse should:

NEW QUESTION 18
The nurse should suspect that a patient has bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract when the color of the patient’s stool is:

NEW QUESTION 19
The nurse teaches a patient recovering from a total hip replacement that it is important to avoid:

NEW QUESTION 20
Which of the following actions is the most appropriate when the nurse is responding to a patient during a tonic-clonic seizure?

NEW QUESTION 21
A patient who sustained a chest injury has a chest tube inserted which is connected to an under water seal drainage system. When caring for this patient the nurse will:

NEW QUESTION 22
When inserting a rectal suppository for a patient the nurse should?

NEW QUESTION 23
When taking routine post-operative observations on a patient who underwent an exploratory laparotomy, the nurse plans to monitor which important finding over the next hour?

NEW QUESTION 24
A trauma patient with open wounds arrives in the emergency department. The nurse would know that a tetanus injection is needed if the patient has:

NEW QUESTION 25
The best dietary advice a nurse can give to a woman diagnosed with mild pregnancy-induced hypertension is to:

NEW QUESTION 26
The rationale for having the patient void before an abdominal paracentesis procedure is to:

NEW QUESTION 27
An 8-month-old infant is diagnosed with communicating hydrocephalus. The nurse notices that his intracranial pressure is increasing from the following changes in his vital signs:

NEW QUESTION 28
Order: Allopurinol 450 mg p.o. daily. Drug availablE.Allopurinol 300 mg scored tablets. Which of the following will you administer?

NEW QUESTION 29
The nurse manager has just prepared a medication for a patient and she asked you to give the medication. Which of the following is the best response to the nurse manager’s request?

NEW QUESTION 30
The mother of a child with nephrotic syndrome asks why her child must be weighed each morning. The nurse’s response should be based on the fact that this is important to determine the:

NEW QUESTION 31
A nurse has been working in a general hospital on the same medical unit for 6 years. The Behavioral Unit is desperately short staffed and the nurse is asked to work her shift in this other unit. What would be the expected response of the nurse to this request?

NEW QUESTION 32
Whenever a child with thalassemia comes for blood transfusion, he is administered Desferoxamine (Desferal). The action of this drug is to:

NEW QUESTION 33
Which of the following actions is the most effective measure to reduce hospital acquired infections?