Nursing 493 priority 3{graded a plus}

b. BUN 16 mg/dL (Normal 10-20) c. PT 12.2 seconds (Normal 11-14) d. Fasting blood glucose 103 mg/dL 180. A nurse is admitting a client who has schizophrenia. The client states, “I’m hearing voices.” Which of the followin ...

b. BUN 16 mg/dL (Normal 10-20) c. PT 12.2 seconds (Normal 11-14) d. Fasting blood glucose 103 mg/dL 180. A nurse is admitting a client who has schizophrenia. The client states, “I’m hearing voices.” Which of the following responses is the priority for the nurse to state? a. “How long have you been hearing the voices?” b. “What are the voices telling you?” c. “Have you taken your medication today?” d. “I realize the voices are real to you, but I don’t hear anything.”- Last Priority - Taken last Tuesday. 1. A nurse is caring for a client who repeatedly refuses meals. The nurse overhears an assistive personnel (AP) telling the client, “If you don’t eat, I’ll put restraints on your wrists and feed you.” The nurse should intervene and explain to the AP that this statement constitutes which of the following torts? a. Malpractice b. Battery- physical c. Assault- verbal d. Negligence 2. A nurse is providing discharge instructions to the parent of a newborn. Which of the following statement by the parent indicates an understanding of the teaching? a. I will suction my baby’s mouth before I suction his nose. b. I will lubricate the tip of the syringe with water prior to suction his nose. c. I should insert the syringe into the center of his mouth. d. I should compress the bulb after inserting it into the mouth. 3. A nurse is providing discharge teaching about car seat safety to a parent of a newborn. Which of the following statements by the parent indicates an understanding of the teaching? a. I will place my baby in a forward- facing car seat in my back seat (facing the rear) b. I can place my baby in the front seat with the airbag turned off. (dont put newborn in front) c. I will position my baby at a 45 degree angle in the car seat. d. I can turn my baby car seat around when she weighs 15 pounds. 4. A nurse is planning care for a client who is in labor and has gonorrhea. Which of the following actions should the nurse include in the plan for delivery? a. Instill erythromycin ointment into the newborn's eye b. Apply miconazole vaginal cream to the mother prior to delivery 83 c. Give oral sulfadiazine to the mother prior to delivery d. Administer penicillin G procaine IM to the newborn 5. A nurse is planning care for a client who has small-bore NG feeding tube in the jejenum. Which of the following is an appropriate action for the nurse to take to confirm placement? a. Instill two drops of blue food coloring formula b. Review an abdominal x-ray report. c. Verify the glucose level aspirated content. d. Auscultate for bubbling sound while injecting air through the tube.??? - i chose this but ima dohle check , i thought about verifying the placement at the moment 6. A charge nurse delegates to an AP the task of ambulating a client. At the end of the shift, the nurse discovers the client has not been ambulated. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first? a. Supervise the AP performing the task b. Remind the AP of her assigned tasks. c. Evaluate why the client was not ambulated. Asses the situation first. Yes. assess first d. Ambulate the client on behalf of the AP. Rationale: Care for the client comes first, so ambulate the patient because AP did not. Then you can investigate why AP did not do the task. 7. A nurse is caring for a client who has prescription for lactated ringer’s IV 4080/mL24hr. The nurse should set the IV infusion pump to deliver how many mL/hr to administer half of the total volume in the first 8 hr? Half = 2040 which need to be administered in 8hrs. So 2040ml/8hr = 255ml/hr 8. A nurse is providing teaching to a client who DM about glycosylated hemoglobin blood test. Which of the following statement by the client indicated an understanding of this test? a. I will need to drink a glucose solution to get an accurate result b. I will need to fast prior to taking this test not necessary c. I will use the result of this test daily to modify my insulin dosage. d. I will use this test to monitor how well I control my blood glucose. 9. A nurse is caring for a client who has CVC and develops an air embolism. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? a. Place the client in a left lateral trendelenburg position. b. Prepare the client for chest tube insertion (I put this one. -Jackie) c. Instruct the client to perform valsalva maneuver d. Remove the client catheter. Rationale: Page 98 ATI Med Surg Book. 10. A nurse is assessing a client who had a colostomy 24 hr ago. Which of the following finding is priority? a. THe client reports a pain level of 6 b. The stoma appears dark purple in color c. The colostomy has had no output d. The client refuses to look at the colostomy