Brainstormer

A 23 year old client who is receiving Medicaid is pregnant with her first child. Based on knowledge of the statistics related to infant mortality, which plan should the nurse implement with this client? A. refer the client to a social worker to arrange for home care B. recommend prenatal care from an obstetrician, not a nurse midwife C. teach the client why keeping prenatal care appointments is important D. Advise the client that neonatal intensive care may be needed - correct answer--C. te...

A charge nurse is assigning rooms for the clients to be admitted to the unit. To prevent falls, which of the following clients should the nurse assign to the room closest to the nurses station? A. A middle adult who is post-op following a laproscopic cholecystectomy B. A middle adult who requires telemetry for a possible myocardial infarction C. A young adult who is post-op following an open reduction internal fixation of the ankle D. An older adult who is post-op following a below-the-kn...

A nurse in a provider's clinic is caring for a client who has diarrhea: Exhibit 1: Vital Signs Temp 36.2 degrees C (97.2 degrees F) Pulse Rate 116/min Respiratory Rate 24/min BP 102/68 mm Hg Oxygen Sat 95% Weight 52.2 kg (115 lb) Exhibit 2: Nurses' Notes 1000: Client reports diarrhea for the past 5 days with approximately 8 liquid stools a day. Woke up this morning feeling dizzy. States, "I felt like I was going to pass out." Client was seen 7 days ago for sinus infection and...

A charge nurse is assigning rooms for the clients to be admitted to the unit. To prevent falls, which of the following clients should the nurse assign to the room closest to the nurses' station? A. A middle adult who is postoperative following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy B. A middle adult who requires telemetry for a possible myocardial infarction C. A young adult who is postoperative following an open reduction internal fixation of the ankle D. An older adult who is postoperative fol...

A charge nurse in a long term care facility is preparing an educational program about delirium for newly hired nurses. Which of the following statements should the nurse plan to include? A. Delirium has an abrupt onset - correct answer--a A charge nurse in a long-term care facility is preparing an educational program about delirium for newly hired nurses. Which of the following statements should the nurse plan to include? a. "Delirium does not affect a client's perception of her environme...

A middle aged adult client is discussing future plans with the nurse. Which of the following statements should the nurse identify as an indication that the client is having difficulty achieving Erikson's developmental task for the age group? - correct answer--A (We miss our daughter so much that we are going to move closer to her.) A newly licensed nurse is preparing to administer medications to a client. The nurse notes that the provider has prescribed a medication that is unfamiliar to him...

Jamestown, 1607 - CORRECT ANSWER-First permanent English colony, founded by the Virginia Company of London First Africans brought to Virginia, 1619 - CORRECT ANSWER-The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to many poor Englishmen who traded several years labor in exchange for passage to America. With the success of tobacco planting, African Slavery was legalized in Virginia and Maryland, becoming the foundation of the Southern agrarian economy., The president...

Chesapeake Bay Area - CORRECT ANSWER-majority of migrants who moves there were indentured servants, economy based on tobacco, few women, less democratic Deism - CORRECT ANSWER-the belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature exodusters - CORRECT ANSWER-african americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start a new in Kansas (west) scalawags - CORRECT ANSWER-term used by southerners in the reconstruction e...

Before the coming of Europeans, the peoples who lived in what is now the United States had not developed - CORRECT ANSWER-A common language The first European country to launch long ocean voyages of exploration was - CORRECT ANSWER-Portugal When Christopher Columbus made his famous voyages to the New World, he - CORRECT ANSWER-Believed that he had reached the Far East The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was, in part, due to - CORRECT ANSWER-The diseases the Spaniards had given the Indian...

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments - CORRECT ANSWER-Amendments to the US Constitution that abolished slavery (13th), granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States (14th), and prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (15th). Alien and Sedition Acts - CORRECT ANSWER-Laws passed in 1798 that allowed the imprisonment and deportation of non-citizens deemed dangerous and restricted speech critical of the gover...