Smorgasboard
The nurse is reviewing the surgical consent with the client during preoperative education and finds the client does not understand what procedure will be performed. What is the nurse’s best next step?
Notify the healthcare provider about the client’s question.
A client is experiencing respiratory acidosis. Which organ system is responsible for compensation in this client?
Renal
A nurse is providing care to a client on strict bed rest following surgery. The nurse assists the patient to the bedside commode and the client sustains an injury to the operative area. Which type of torts has the nurse committed?
Negligence
Which is the nurse’s role in regard to informed consent? (3)
Confirm the client has sufficient knowledge, witnesss, make sure consent is in chart.
Vital signs, empty foley, daily ADL's
UAP
“It seems so unfair that this dialysis is going to ruin my whole life."
Anticipatory grieving.
pH 7.3, PaCO2 36 mm Hg, HCO3− 19 mEq/L
Metabolic Acidosis
The nurse questions a health care provider’s decision to not tell the client about a cancer diagnosis. Which ethical principle is the nurse trying to uphold for the client?
Autonomy
A nurse suspects an older adult client is experiencing caregiver abuse. Which assessment findings are consistent with the nurse’s suspicions?
Cuts and bruises in different stages of healing
Check nasogastric tube patency and obtain a urine specimen collection using straight catheterization.
LPN
A nurse is planning care for a client that is to receive packed red blood cells (RBCs). The nurse should plan for the total infusion time not to exceed which of the following?
4hrs
pH 7.32, PCO2 35, HCO3 20
Metabolic acidosis?
A nurse tells a client that the flu shot may cause some discomfort but describes the benefits of the immunization.
Beneficience
The nurse should ask about a client’s potential allergies during which phase of the nursing process?
Assessment
Assisting a client that is 12 hr postoperative following an appendectomy to use a bedpan
UAP
A nurse is assessing a client who is receiving one unit of packed red blood cells (RBCs) to treat intraoperative blood loss. The client reports chills and back pain, and the client's blood pressure is 80/64 mm Hg. Which action should the nurse take first?
Stop the infusion of blood.
The nurse is caring for a client with hyperkalemia. Which body system assessment is the priority?
Cardiac
Ensuring that time and resources are distributed equitably to clients.
Justice
A nurse witnesses an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) reprimanding a client for not using the urinal properly. The UAP threatens to put a diaper on the client if the client does not use the urinal more carefully next time. Which tort is the UAP committing?
Assault
IV push medications and initiate blood transfusion
RN
An internal process unique to each person with variable time frames.
Grief Process.
Calcium level 15.5
Hypercalcemia
The nurse overhears a healthcare provider's conversation with the charge nurse. The healthcare provider says that a certain nurse cannot care for clients because the nurse is stupid and will not follow orders. Which tort has the healthcare provider committed?
Slander
A client admitted with right leg thrombophlebitis is to be discharged from an acute-care facility. Following treatment with a heparin infusion, the nurse notes that the client's leg is pain-free, without redness or edema. Which step of the nursing process does this reflect?
Evaluation
Insert a nasogastric tube in a client.
LPN