1125 PrepU Teaching & Learning/Patient Education

Which statement, if made by an adolescent preparing for abdominal surgery, would indicate to the nurse that the client requires additional instruction?

"I can have a hamburger and French fries as soon as I wake up."

The nurse identifies the nursing diagnosis of deficient knowledge related to a new hearing aid for a client. After teaching a client about caring for his new hearing aid, the nurse determines that the outcome has been achieved when the client states which of the following?

"I need to keep my ear canal clean and dry."

The nurse is caring for a client who is scheduled for the creation of an ileal conduit. Which statement by the client provides evidence that client teaching was effective?

"My urine will be eliminated through a stoma."

The nurse is assessing vital signs on a client who is 3 months status post myocardial infarction (MI). While the healthcare provider is examining the client, the client's spouse approaches the nurse and states "We are too afraid he will have another heart attack, so we just don't have sex anymore." What is the nurse's best response?

"The physiologic demands are greatest during orgasm and are equivalent to walking 3 to 4 miles per hour on a treadmill.

Unit Dose System

A prescribed amount of medication dispensed at a specified time

Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA)

An electronic system of administering medication that makes use of specific bar code identifiers for each medication

A nurse caring for a client who has had radical neck surgery notices an abnormal amount of serosanguineous secretions in the wound suction unit during the first postoperative day. What is an expected, normal amount of drainage?

Approximately 80 to 120 mL

A client has been taking imipramine, 125 mg by mouth daily, for 1 week. Now the client reports wanting to stop taking the medication because of continuing feelings of depression. At this time, what is the nurse's best response?

Because imipramine must build to a therapeutic level, it may take 2 to 3 weeks to reduce depression.

A patient has stepped in a hole in the yard, causing an ankle injury. The ankle is edematous and painful to palpation. How long should the nurse inform the patient that the acute inflammatory stage will last?

Between 24 and 48 hours

A client undergoes a biopsy of a suspicious lesion. The biopsy report classifies the lesion according to the TNM staging system as follows: Tis, N0, M0. What does this classification mean?

Carcinoma in situ no abnormal regional lymph nodes no evidence of distant metasta

A nurse is covering all aspects of admission procedures for a client who is receiving home health services. The nurse explains what procedures will be covered during the nurse's visits. Which aspect of the admission process does this represent?

Clearly defining the purpose and expectations of the admission

During a class on stroke, a junior nursing student asks what the clinical manifestations of stroke are. What would be the instructor's best answer?

Clinical manifestations of a stroke depend on the area of the cortex, the affected hemisphere, the degree of blockage, and the availability of collateral circulation

This type of T lymphocyte is responsible for altering the cell membrane and initiating cellular lysis. Choose the T lymphocyte.

Cytotoxic T cell

Which tube is a nasoenteric feeding tube?

Dobbhoff Feeding tube

A nurse is preparing a client with Crohn's disease for a barium enema. What should the nurse do the day before the test?

Encourage plenty of fluids.

From which pair of metabolic disorders must the nurse instruct the parents to eliminate breast and cow's milk from the diet?

Galactosemia and phenylketonuria

A nurse teaches a client with angina pectoris that he or she needs to take up to three sublingual nitroglycerin tablets at 5-minute intervals and immediately notify the health care provider if chest pain doesn't subside within 15 minutes. What symptoms may the client experience after taking the nitroglycerin?

Headache, hypotension, dizziness, and flushing.

The nurse determines that a client recently diagnosed with subacute bacterial endocarditis understands discharge teaching upon which client statement?

I have to call my doctor so I can get antibiotics before seeing the dentist.

A nurse is caring for a client who has a history of sleep apnea. The client understands the disease process when they say

I should become involved in a weight loss program.

The nurse is caring for a young adult with hepatitis A. The client is crying and saying that they hate the way they look with yellow skin. Which response is most appropriate?

If you start to get well and feel better, the skin will return to its normal color.

Radiographic evaluation of a client's fracture reveals that a bone fragment has been driven into another bone fragment. The nurse identifies this as which type of fracture?

Impacted

Which is a true statement regarding gastric cancer?

Most clients are asymptomatic during the early stage of the disease.

A nurse is giving nutritional counseling to the mother of a child with celiac disease. Which statement by the mother indicates understanding?

My child can't eat wheat, rye, oats, or barley."

A client with a diagnosis of pernicious anemia comes to the clinic and reports numbness and tingling in the arms and legs. What do these symptoms indicate?

Neurologic involvement

Which medication system allows for client independence? -Self-administered medication system -Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) -Unit dose system -Automated medication-dispensing system

Self Administered medication system

Which would a nurse identify as a contraindication for the use of a beta-1 selective blocker?

Sinus bradycardia

Which of the following nursing actions is most important in caring for the client following lithotripsy?

Strain the urine carefully for stone fragments.

Self Administered Medication System

Supplies each patient with his or her prescribed doses and quantities for a given period

A client's left leg is in skeletal traction with a Thomas leg splint and Pearson attachment. Which intervention should the nurse include in this client's care plan?

Teach the client how to prevent problems caused by immobility.

The nurse is caring for a client with dysrhythmia. What would be an important procedure to teach a client with dysrhythmia to perform to evaluate his or her response to treatment?

Technique for palpating and counting the radial pulse

A nurse is caring for a client with dementia. A family member of the client asks what the most common cause of dementia is. Which response by the nurse is most appropriate?

The most common cause of dementia in the elderly is Alzheimer's disease

Which technique does the nurse suggest to a client with pleurisy while teaching about splinting the chest wall?

Turn onto the affected side.

A client is 9 days postpartum and breast-feeding her neonate. The client experiences pain, redness, and swelling of her left breast and is diagnosed with mastitis. The nurse teaching the client how to care for her infected breast should include which information?

Use a warm moist compress over the painful area.

Important teaching for clients receiving antipsychotic medication such as haloperidol includes which instruction?

Use sunscreen whenever going outside.

Which concept is most important for a nurse to communicate to a client preparing to sign an informed consent for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?

You may experience a time of confusion after the treatment.

A client whose physical findings suggest a hyperpituitary condition undergoes an extensive diagnostic workup. Test results reveal a pituitary tumor, which necessitates a transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. The evening before the surgery, the nurse reviews preoperative and postoperative instructions given to the client earlier. Which postoperative instruction should the nurse emphasize?

You must avoid coughing, sneezing, and blowing your nose

An experienced nurse is precepting a new nurse in a psychiatric emergency room and is discussing criteria for involuntary commitment. Which client would signal to the experienced nurse that the new nurse understands the criteria?

a person who threatens to kill their spouse of 38 years

Automated Medication Dispensing System

electronically controlled to dispense a drug only nurses have access

After undergoing a left thoracotomy, a client has a chest tube in place. When caring for this client, the nurse must:

encourage coughing and deep breathing.

Patient health education provided by the nurse

is an independent function of nursing practice.

A client with type 1 diabetes takes 15 units of insulin isophane before breakfast and 8 units before dinner. During a follow-up visit, the nurse reevaluates the client's knowledge about insulin therapy and self-administration skills. The nurse realizes the client requires additional teaching when the nurse discovers the client takes which over-the-counter preparations?

salicylate-containing preparations

A female client reports to a nurse that she experiences a loss of urine when she jogs. The nurse's assessment reveals no nocturia, burning, discomfort when voiding, or urine leakage before reaching the bathroom. The nurse explains to the client that this type of problem is called:

stress incontinence.

A nurse is developing a teaching plan for a client who has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. The nurse should include information about

tamoxifen.