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A comprehensive set of questions and answers related to patient care fundamentals, covering a wide range of topics such as vital signs, physical examination techniques, and medical procedures. The questions are designed to assess the knowledge and understanding of healthcare professionals, particularly medical assistants, in providing quality patient care. Updated for the 2024/2025 academic year and has been graded as an a+ resource. It covers essential topics like cyanosis, bradypnea, pulse measurement, height and weight measurements, vital signs, temperature measurement, blood pressure, respiration, and various physical examination techniques. The document also addresses topics related to pediatric care, prenatal care, and medical documentation. This resource can be valuable for students, healthcare professionals, and educators in the field of patient care and medical assisting.
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A nurse is discussing restorative health care w/newly-licensed nurse. Which of the following examples should the nurse include in the teaching? - SOLUTION Home health care, Rehab facilities, Skilled nursing facilities A nurse is explaining the various types of health coverage clients might have to a group of nursing students. Which of the following health care financing mechanisms are federally funded?
tasks CNAs may perform, which of the following client activities should she include? - SOLUTION Bathing, Ambulating, Toileting, Measure VS A nurse is caring for a client who decides not to have surgery despite significant blockages in his coronary arteries. The nurse understands that this client's choice is an example of which of the following ethical principles? - SOLUTION Authority A nurse offers pain med to a client who's post-op prior to ambulation. The nurse understands that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which of the following ethical principals? - SOLUTION Beneficence A nurse is instructing nursing students about the responsibilities of organ donation n procurement involve. When the nurse explains that all clients waiting 4 kidney transplant have 2 meet the same qualifications, the students should understand that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which of the following? - SOLUTION Justice A nurse questions a med prescription as too extreme in light of the client's advanced age & unstable status. The nurse understands that this action is an example of which of the following ethical principles? - SOLUTION Nonmaleficence A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students about how to know & what to expect when ethical dilemmas arise. Which of the following situations should the students identify as an ethical dilemma? - SOLUTION A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube feedings for their father, who is terminally ill A nurse observes as AP reprimanding a client for not using the urinal properly. The AP tells him she will put a diaper on him if he doesn't use the urinal more carefully next time. Which of the following torts is the AP committing? - SOLUTION Assault A nurse is caring for a competent adult client who tells the nurse he's thinking about leaving the hospital against med advice. The nurse believes that this isn't the client's best interest. so she prepares to administer PRN sedative med the client hasn't requested along w/his-usual-med. What is the nurse about to commit? - SOLUTION False imprisonment A nurse in a surgeon's office is providing pre-op teaching for a client who's scheduled for surgery the following week. The client tells the nurse that he'll prepare his advance directives b he goes to the hospital. Which of the following should indicate to the nurse an understanding of advance directives? - SOLUTION "I plan to write that I don't want them to keep me on a breathing machine." A nurse is caring for a client who is about to undergo an elective surgical procedure. The nurse should take which of the following actions regarding informed consent? - SOLUTION Make sure the surgeon obtained the client's consent, Witness the client's signature on the consent form A nurse has noticed several occasions in the past week when another nurse on the unit seemed drowsy & unable to focus on the issue at hand. Today, she found the nurse asleep in a chair in
the break room when she wasn't on break. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
By the 2nd post-op day, a client hasn't achieved satisfactory pain relief. Based on this evaluation, which of the following actions should the nurse take, according to the nursing process? - SOLUTION Reassess the client to determine the reasons for inadequate pain relief A charge nurse is reviewing the steps of the nursing process with a group of nurses. Which of the following data should the charge nurse identify as objective data? - SOLUTION Respiratory rate is 22/min with even, unlabored respirations; Skin is pink warm & dry; The AP reports the client the client walked with a limp A charge nurse is talking with a newly licensed nurse & is reviewing nursing interventions that don't require a providers prescription. Which of the following interventions should the charge nurse include? - SOLUTION Showing a client how to use progressive muscle relaxation, Performing a daily bath after the evening meal, Repositioning the client every 2 hr to reduce risk of pressure ulcer A nurse is discussing the nursing process w/newly-hired nurse. Which of the following statements by the newly hired nurse should the nurse identify as appropriate for the panning step of the nursing process? - SOLUTION "I will determine the most important client problems that we should address."