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This is how you can help an aphasic patient communicate.
What is ask yes/no questions.
This is how you can differentiate between delirium and dementia.
What is the patient was oriented and alert when admitted.
This is the treatment for Guillain-Barre syndrome.
What is immunoglobulin infusion.
This should be taught to a patient who has a strain injury of the elbow due to repetitive movements.
What is modifying arm movements.
This is what you would ask a patient who comes to your outpatient clinic with neck pain.
What is do you have numbness or tingling of the hands and arms.
This teaching would be provided to a patient who is left-handed and now has left sided hemiplegia due to a stroke.
What is teach them to eat with their right hand.
This is one way to reduce the risk of injury during an episode of delirium.
What is assign assistive personal to stay with and reorient the patient.
This is a urinary intervention for a patient with cauda equina syndrome.
What is catheterize the patient every 3 to 4 hours.
This is a GI complication of a fractured pelvis due to bedrest.
What is abdominal distension and absent bowel sounds.
This is a symptom of osteoarthritis of the knee.
What is discomfort with joint movement.
This is a common finding in patients that are having cluster headaches.
What is unilateral ptosis.
Which of these patients would you see first?
Patient with no bowel movement for 3 days
patient who is refusing medications
Patient who developed a cough after eating breakfast
Who is the patient who developed a cough after eating breakfast.
This is the site of inflammation of bursitis.
What is the fluid-filled sac at the joint.
This is what you would do if your patient who had a right below the knee amputation was complaining of pain in the right foot.
What is administer prescribe analgesics.
This is the assessment that you would do for a patient who comes in with rheumatoid nodules on the elbows.
What is assess the nodules for skin breakdown or infection.
Your patient reports numbness and tingling in the left arm before having a seizure. This is the type of seizure you would suspect.
What is focal-onset seizure.
This assessment would help you to assess for trigeminal neuralgia.
What is inspecting the oral mucosa and teeth.
This information in a womans health history would alert you to the need for a focused assessment of the musculoskeletal system.
What is her mother became shorter with age.
This is what you would do for a patient that is admitted with osteomyelitis of the left femur for regional antibiotics.
What is immobilization of the left leg.
This is an activity that can be taught to relieve the effects of ankylosing spondylitis.
What is do daily gentle stretching exercises.
This would be your first action as a nurse if a patient began to have a seizure.
What is check the environment for sources of potential injury.
This is what you would do if a patient with Bell's palsy refuses to eat in the presence of others.
What is respect the patients feelings and arrange for privacy at mealtime.
This is an implantable device that would warrant a call to the health care provider if the patient was ordered an MRI.
What is a pacemaker.
This is what you would do for a patient who is admitted with muscular dystrophy that has pneumonia.
What is assist patient with ambulation.
This is how you would know that colchicine has been effective for a patient with an acute gout attack.
What is reduced joint pain.