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A multiparous client has been in labor for 8 hours when her membranes rupture. Which action should the nurse implement first? Prepare the client for imminent birth. Assess the fetal heart rate and pattern. Document the characteristics of the fluid. Notify the client's primary healthcare provider. - Answer-Assess the fetal heart rate and pattern. A primigravida at 37 weeks gestation tells the nurse that her "bag of water" has broken. While inspecting the client's perineum, the nurse ...

Bowel Elimination practice questions all answers correct A) Where peristalsis moves food to stomach B) Receives enzymes from the gallbladder and pancreas to further break down chyme and absorbs nutrients C) Secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin; converts bolus of food to chyme D) Absorbs, protects, secretes, eliminates E) Temporarily stores feces until elimination 1) Esophagus 2) Rectum 3) Small intestine 4) Stomach 5) Colon A-1, B-3, C-4, D-5, E-2 If a patient had to...

ATI CMS FUNDAMENTALS – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A nurse is caring for a client who is in the terminal stage of cancer. Which of the following actions should the nurse take when she observes the client crying? A. Contact the family and ask them to stay with the client B. Offer to call the client's minister C. Sit and hold the client's hand D. Leave the room and allow the client to cry privately Correct Ans - C. Sit and hold the client's hand A nurse is caring for a client who requires...

ATI RN Leadership Online Practice 2013A 49. A staff nurse detects alcohol on the breath of another nurse working on the unit. He observes that her gait seems unsteady, and she occasionally slurs her speech. Which of the following actions should the nurse take if he suspects that his colleague is under the influence of alcohol? Notify the charge nurse of his assessment 50. A nurse manager needs to address an increased rate of client medication errors. Which of the following strategies represents...

HESI Case Study: Feeding and Eating Disorders Terms in this set (22) 1. Which clinical manifestations should the nurse observe as indicators of hypophosphatemia? (Select all that apply. One, some, or all options may be correct.) Shallow respirations. Weak cardiac contractions. Seizure activity. Altered mental status. 2. Which laboratory finding result reveals the finding of protein malnutrition? Prealbumin level 5 mg/dL (5 mg/mL). 3. When developing the plan of care for initiation o...

HESI A2 Entrance Exam questions and answers. MOSTLY EXAMINED TERMINLOGIES WITH DEFINITIONS Document Content and Description Below virulence - the ability to produce disease efface - to wipe out, to rub out, do away with; (medical) the thinning of the cervix during labor ubiquitous - omnipresent, existing or being everywher e osmosis - process of fluid passing through semi-permeable membrane from higher to lower concentration labile - apt or likely to change, changing quickly -Because the child...

The patient with CKD is receiving dialysis, and the nurse observes excoriations on the patient's skin. What pathophysiologic changes in CKD can contribute to this finding (select all that apply)? a. Dry skin b. Sensory neuropathy c. Vascular calcifications d. Calcium-phosphate skin deposits e. Uremic crystallization from high BUN - ANSWERSa, b, d. Pruritus is common in patients receiving dialysis. It causes scratching from dry skin, sensory neuropathy, and calcium-phosphate depositio...

HESI Maternity Questions & Answers 2023(A+GRADED 100%VERIFIED)

1. In Harriet Martineau's first book on methods, the social institution of marriage is criticized as: a. based on an assumption of the inferiority of men. b reinforcing compulsory heterosexuality. . c. based on an assumption of the inferiority of women. d perpetuating social class stratification. . 1. Positivism is best defined as: a. the effect of religion on social institutions and the individuals within them. b. the relationship between scientific and religious social institutio...

ATI Med Surg EXAM WELL ELABORATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ A nurse is caring for a client who is receiving continuous bladder irrigation following a transurethral resection of the prostate. The client reports bladder spasms and the nurse observes decreased urinary output. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? a) Remove the indwelling urinary catheter b) decrease transaction of the catheter c) flush the catheter manually with 0.9% sodium chloride d) administer ...