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A nurse is assisting with the care of a client who has a femur fracture and is in skeletal traction. Which of the following actions should the nurse take - CORRECT ANSWER Ensure the client's weights are hanging freely from the bed. A nurse in a provider's office is reinforcing teaching with a client who has anemia and has been taking ferrous gluconate for several weeks. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include? - CORRECT ANSWER Take this medication between meals ...

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What is Starling's Law of Capillary forces? How does this explain why a nutritionally deficient child would have edema? - CORRECT ANSWER Starling's Law describes how fluids move across the capillary membrane. There are two major opposing forces that act to balance each other, hydrostatic pressure (pushing wa-ter out of the capillaries) and osmotic pressure (including oncontic pressure, which pushes fluid into the capillaries). Both electrolytes and proteins (oncontic pressure) in...

Davis Advantage for Fundamentals Of Nursing (V2), 4th Edition, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Karen L. Barnett, Mable H. Smith-Latest Complete and Elaborated Test Bank - Updated 2023COMPLETE - Elaborated Test Bank for Davis Advantage for Fundamentals Of Nursing (V2), 4th Edition, Judith M. Wilkinson, Leslie S. Treas, Karen L. Barnett, Mable H. Smith-Latest Complete and Elaborated -Updated 2023COMPLETE Elaborated Test Bank Davis Advantage for Fundamentals of Nursing (2 Volume Set), 4E...

Which area of the brain affects speech? - CORRECT AN-SWER Broca's area Priority following stroke before eating - CORRECT ANSWER -swallow evaluation by speech pathologist Priority interventions durring stroke - CORRECT ANSWER -call 911 -maintain airway -check BP -MRI or CT scan w or w/o contrast -fibrinolytic therapy What to WOF with stroke pt.? - CORRECT ANSWER sei-zures What are characteristics of melanoma? - CORRECT AN-SWER ***ABCD -Asymmetry; the two sides ...

What is Starling's Law of Capillary forces? How does this explain why a nutritionally deficient child would have edema? - CORRECT ANSWER Starling's Law describes how fluids move across the capillary membrane. There are two major opposing forces that act to balance each other, hydrostatic pressure (pushing wa-ter out of the capillaries) and osmotic pressure (including oncontic pressure, which pushes fluid into the capillaries). Both electrolytes and proteins (oncontic pressure) in...

A nurse is providing discharge instructions to a Chinese client regarding prescribed dietary modifications. During the teaching session the client con-tinually turns away from the nurse. Which of the following nursing actions is most appropriate? 1. Continue with the instructions, verifying client understanding. 2. Identify the importance of the instructions for the maintenance of health care. 3. Walk around the client so that the nurse continually faces the client. 4. Give the client a ...

A patient who is hospitalized with abdominal pain and watery, incon-tinent diarrhea is diagnosed with Clostridium difficile. In planning care for the patient, the nurse will a. order a diet with no dairy products for the patient. b. place the patient in a private room with contact isolation. c. explain to the patient why antibiotics are not being used. d. teach the patient about proper food handling and storage. - COR-RECT ANSWER ANS: B Rationale: Because C. difficile is highly contag...

Neurons that conduct impulses from the CNS to muscles or glands are - CORRECT ANSWER motor neurons. Which cells produce myelin in the brain and spinal cord? - COR-RECT ANSWER Oligodendrocytes Every neuron has - CORRECT ANSWER a cell body. If a resting potential becomes more negative, the membrane is - CORRECT ANSWER hyperpolarized. Which of the following neuroglia are not part of the CNS? - COR-RECT ANSWER Satellite cells

A nurse in the ED is performing triage for a group of clients following a MVC. Which of the following clients should the nurse request the provider assess first? -A client who has a closed leg fracture and reports peripheral paresthe-sia -A client who reports a sprained ankle and has a laceration over the medial ankle -A client who has arm contusions and manifests asymmetrical thoracic movement -A client who has abrasions to the face and is requesting medication for severe pain - CORRECT...