Nsg 313 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The nurse is caring for a 6-year-old patient in the emergency department who just had a full left leg cast placed for a fracture. As the nurse is reviewing the discharge instructions with the patient's mother, she states, "You don't have to go over those—I'll read them at home." What should the nurse do? a. Contact the physician immediately. b. Consider the possibility of health literacy limitations and assess further. c. Stop the teaching, because the mother obviously has taken car...

A client is on complete bed rest and complains of back pain from lying "in the bed all the time." What is a nursing intervention that uses a nonpharmacologic method to ease the discomfort? (Select all that apply.) 1. Administering a dose of morphine for pain 2. Assisting the client to a bedside chair 3. Giving the client a back massage 4. Instructing the client that the health care provider will see him tomorrow night 5. Using music that contains no words 6. Instructing the client in g...

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The hospice nurse is caring for a terminally ill patient. The patient's son is distraught because the patient will probably die within the next few days and there is nothing he can do about it. What is the most appropriate nursing diagnosis for the patient's son currently? a. Chronic grief related to impending death of parent. b. Death anxiety related to feeling powerless over situation. c. Risk for conflicting religious belief related to being distraught over impending death of parent....

1. Your patient will be using crutches for mobility. After educating the patient on how to adjust the crutches to fit correctly, you assess how well the patient understood the instructions. What findings demonstrate that the crutches were adjusted correctly by the patient? Select all that apply:* A. The hand grips of the crutches are even with the mid-forearm. B. When the patient grips the hand grips of the crutches the elbow bends at about 30 degrees. C. The patient has a 2-3 finger widt...

Exam 4: NSG3130/ NSG 3130 (New 2024/ 2025 Update) Fundamental II Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| A Grade QUESTION pulmonary embolism (PE) symptoms Answer: - *sudden onset of dyspnea, SOB* - *accessory muscles being used* - *tachypnea* - pleuritic chest pain - tachycardia - cough - hemoptysis - unilateral low extremity edema, due to DVT QUESTION ABGs for pulmonary embolism Answer: decreased co2, and o2, increase in ph QUE...

Exam 3: NSG3130 / NSG 3130 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Fundamental II | Complete Review with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Galen Q: What is the general adaptation syndrome? Answer: A model of the body's stress response, consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion Q: When is the general adaptation system evoked? Answer: When the stimulation or stressor is strong enough to activate the autonomic nervous branch of the central nervous system, eliciting ...

Exam 2: NSG3130 / NSG 3130 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Fundamental II | Complete Review with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Galen Q: Before education can occur what must be considered first? Answer: the patients background, readiness to learn, and current condition. Q: What are the three domains of learning? Answer: cognitive, affective, psychomotor Q: Cognitive Domain of Learning Answer: includes all intellectual behaviors and requires thinking. Knowledge and material...

Exam 1: NSG3130 / NSG 3130 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Fundamental II | Complete Review with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Galen Q: define risk factor reduction. a step by step improvement of individual health factors. improvements of decreasing a developing disease Q: what is primary prevention? Answer: - instituted before disease becomes established by removing the causes or increasing resistance Q: what is secondary prevention? Answer: the use of screening tests to...

Exam 4: NSG3130 / NSG 3130 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Fundamental II | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Galen Q: LDL Answer: bad cholesterol Q: HDL Answer: good cholesterol Q: cardiac catheterization thin, flexible tube is guided into the heart via a vein or an artery Q: aging adults Answer: heart rate decreases, bp increases, heart loses muscle tone which causes decreased cardiac output. Q: still/impaired valves and decreased tone Answer: can lead to decreas...