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Chapter 63 Management of Patients With Neurologic Dysfunction correct answers 1. The clinic nurse is assessing a child who has been brought to the clinic with signs and symptoms that are suggestive of otitis externa. What assessment finding is characteristic of otitis externa? A) Tophi on the pinna and ear lobe B) Dark yellow cerumen in the external auditory canal C) Pain on manipulation of the auricle D) Air bubbles visible in the middle ear correct answers C 2. While reviewing th...

Pathogens correct answers Are agents that cause disease, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or other Immune system correct answers *Enables animals to avoid or limit many infections*; A system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response Innate immunity correct answers Immunity that is present before exposure and effective from birth. Responds to a broad range of pathogens...

d. "When it is cold outside in the winter, I will use a nonvented furnace." correct answers A home health nurse is performing a home assessment for safety. Which comment by the patient will cause the nurse to follow up? a. "Every December is the time to change batteries on the carbon monoxide detector." b. "I will schedule an appointment with a chimney inspector next week." c. "If I feel dizzy when using the heater, I need to have it inspected." d. "When it is cold outside in t...

How did the field of marriage and family therapy evolve? correct answers - Changing social dynamics after WWII - family roles became less predictable and options for individuals increased creating more interpersonal tension - divorce rates increased - the world entered the atomic age and anxiety reached levels that made it difficult for the family to cope as a system - became more accepting of professional help - some clinicians believed that individual psychological problems could be bette...

Law correct answers The principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision. Ethics correct answers Values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. Statutory Law correct answers All written laws and governmental code...

when does the assessment process begin? what is the next step? correct answers - initial meeting between nurse and client/ family - obtain information about the client's current and past problems in addition to your interview, assessment includes information you obtain from: correct answers existing records, past diagnostic testing, information from family, and in some instances, contact with previous health care providers, schools, or other referral sources subjective data correct answ...

It is the VOLUME of oxygen physically dissolved in the plasma in the arteries. The higher the _______, the higher the amount of oxygen dissolved in the blood. correct answers The partial pressure of oxygen. the PERCENTAGE of oxygen that could be carried if all hemoglobin held the maximum possible amount of O2. correct answers Oxygen Saturation The amount of oxygen that actually COMBINES with hemoglobin depends on both the ____________ and the ________________ in the blood. correct answers ...

Nursing Meta Paradigm correct answers - nursing - health - environment - client - transitions Dimensions of Health and Well-Being correct answers 1. vitality, energy 2. meaning, purpose 3. connectedness, commmunity Illness correct answers - subjective Disease correct answers - pathology, biological condition - huge part of illness falls under disease, but illness can be separate from disease Community correct answers - defined as a body of people living in one geographical...

Definition of the Nursing Process correct answers The systematic method of critical thinking used by professional nurses to develop individualized plans of care and provide care for patients The framework within which nurses provide care to patients in an organized and effective manner Thinking like a nurse is facilitated by nurses using the nursing process in the development of individualized patient plans of care. Care Plans correct answers Can be handwritten or be part of the electro...

The 4 basic types of Nursing Health Assessment are: correct answers • Initial comprehensive assessment • Ongoing or partial assessment • Focused or problem-oriented assessment • Emergency assessment Health assessment can be divided into four steps: correct answers collecting subjective data collecting objective data validation of data documentation of data The complete health history is performed to collect as much subjective data about a client as possible. It consists of ...