Nursing role and Judgment
This ethical principle protects a client's right to refuse treatment.
What is Autonomy?
Hand hygiene most directly interrupts this link in the chain of infection.
What is transmission?
Asking the client to explain medication instructions demonstrates this method.
What is Teach-back?
This question type invites more than a yes-or-no response.
What is open-ended?
This is the human response to an actual or perceived loss.
What is grief?
A client's report of nausea is classified as this type of data.
New warmth, swelling, and pain in one calf suggest this complication.
What is DVT?
Coughing and a wet voice after drinking suggest this problem.
What is aspiration?
A client with limited English proficiency requires this communication resource.
What is an qualified interpreter?
Grieving before an expected death is this type of grief.
What is anticipatory grief?
This theorist emphasized phases of the nurse-client relationship.
What is Peplau?
A bedbound client suddenly develops chest pain and dyspnea after calf swelling. Suspect this complication.
What is pulmonary embolism?
Liquid stool leaking around retained hard stool suggests this condition.
What is fecal impaction?
A client says “I’m fine” while crying and avoiding eye contact. The nurse should address this type of cue.
what is a nonverbal cue?
This care may begin at diagnosis while curative treatment continues.
What is palliative care?
The RN assigns routine bathing of a stable client to this team member.
What is the UAP/CNA?
A respiratory rate rising from 18 to 30 with restlessness signals this change.
What is deterioration
Urine collected from a Foley drainage bag has a high risk for this problem.
What is contamination?
Instead of assuming the family makes healthcare decisions, the nurse asks the client to identify this person.
What is decision-maker?
fter a serious diagnosis, a client says, “My faith meant everything to me, but now I feel abandoned and see no meaning in it.
What is spiritual distress?
A stable client suddenly develops stridor while another reports severe pain. This concern takes priority.
What is airway?
After standing, a client becomes dizzy and the blood pressure drops substantially. Name this condition.
What is orthostatic hypotension?
A sleepy, unsteady client is scheduled for discharge teaching. This must be evaluated first.
What is learning readiness?
This approach requires examining personal assumptions while learning from the client.
What is cultural humility?
Emotional exhaustion from repeated exposure to others’ suffering describes this condition.
What is compassion fatigue?