NSG 500 (NSG500)

As the nurse manager on a rehab unit, you are asked to come to the tub room immediately because two nursing assistants are having a loud disagreement in front of a patient. You ask the nursing assistants to meet you outside and after ensuring that a third nursing assistant is able to care for the patient, you speak with the two nursing assistants. Which of the following would you ask first? b. "Have you experienced disagreements like this before?" c. "How do you think this patient'...

it is noncardiac chest pain if: - Answer constant achiness, does not radiate, worsens with pressing on chest wall, fleeting/needle like jab that lasts a few seconds, situated in shoulders or between shoulder blades in the back dullness on percussion - Answer present in pleural effusion or lobar pneumonia tactile fremitus - Answer decreased or absent if excess air in lungs (emphysema), pelural thickening or effusion, bronchial obstruction increased if presence of fluids, solid mas...

Why was Florence Nightingale essential for the birth of nursing leadership. - Answer -She was the first person to bring systematic standards to nursing education. -When recruited t be a British military nurse she noticed the hospitals were infested with vermin and lacked clean sheets and other things. -Despite direct Opposition from the physicians, Nightingale gathered the other nurses and military wives to improve the conditions of the hospitals using her own money and would go on to ot...

what does PPE protect against? - Answer exposure to blood and body substances standard precaution - Answer -Yellow - ex) Hepatitis B, C, Cytomegalovirus - no restrictions on patient placement - gloves & gowns when potential blood or body substance contact. mask and eyewear for blood or body substances (cough/sneeze) contact. - clean w/ neutral detergent. if surfaces are contaminated w blood or body fluid disinfect -visitors: hand hygiene, resp hygiene, cough etiquette Contact ...

A palpable vibration increased with lobar pneumonia is also known as: A. Rhonchi B. Resonance C. Fremitus D. Crackles - Answer C. Fremitus (key term is "palpable" Your patient is exhibiting rapid shallow breathing, with a respiratory rate >24 respirations per minute. Which of the following conditions are they experiencing? A. hypoxemia B. tachypnea C. fremitus D. resonance - Answer B. tachypnea Increased tactile fremitus would be evident in an individual who has whic...

where do you check pulse for children >2 - Answer radial (week 1 ppt) where do you check pulse for children <2 - Answer apical (week 1 ppt) what is normal HR for 1-2yrs - Answer 70-150bpm(week 1 ppt) what is normal HR for 2-6yrs - Answer 68-138bpm(week 1 ppt) what is normal HR for 6-10yrs - Answer 65-125bpm(week 1 ppt) what is normal resp for early childhood - Answer 20-40resp/min(week 1 ppt) what is normal resp for late childhood - Answer 15-25resp/m...