HESI Nursing Concepts- Comfort
Which intervention improves client satisfaction?
Adjusting the bed and asking if the client is comfortable
Which emergency response team helps set up shelters for victims who lost their homes due to a disaster?
American Red Cross
What should a nurse recommend to best help a client during the period immediately after a spouse's death?
Bereavement counseling
When a client expresses anxiety about being given anesthesia, which team members should sit with the person and provide comfort during the induction?
Circulating nurse
Which clinical finding leads the nurse to conclude that an IV has infiltrated rather than caused inflammation?
Coolness
In which position would the nurse place a client with a spinal cord injury experiencing autonomic dysreflexia?
High fowler
A client with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is admitted with acute bronchopneumonia. The client is in moderate respiratory distress. The nurse should place the client in what position to enhance comfort?
High fowler using the bedside table to rest arms
Which sleep disorder is an example of a dyssomnia?
Insomnia RLS OSA
What interventions should the nurse perform while caring for an actively dying patient?
Provide client and family reassurance offer symptom management to the client
The nurse is caring for a two days post-surgery hip-replacement client who has had a bowel movement. which nursing intervention would the nurse perform next?
Provide perineal care
Which reason would the nurse include in a response to a client with rheumatoid arthritis who asks the nurse why it is necessary to inject hydrocortisone into the knee joint?
Reduces inflammation
Which intervention would the nurse offer the client to help relieve the symptoms of sinusitis?
Saline irrigation
In which position will the nurse place a client who has been transferred from the postanesthesia care unity to the intensive care unit after a radical neck dissection?
Semi-fowler
The nurse explains to the parents of a 6-year-old child with a pinworm infestation how pinworms are transmitted. which statement indicates that the teaching has been understood?
She needs to wash her hands before eating anything
Which action would the nurse take when caring for a severely depressed client?
Sit down next to the client at frequent intervals
A client has terminal cancer after 7 years of chemotherapy and surgeries. The nurse enters the client's room and finds the client crying. Which is the correct intervention by the nurse?
Sit down quietly next to the bed and allow the client to cry
according to freud's psychoanalytical model of personality development, which characteristic is part of the oral stage
The child realizes that he or she is a separate individual
Which action would the nurse implement first when planning to provide a back massage to a client?
assess the client's preference for touch and massage
which medication would help the client sleep and treat the allergic symptoms of a client who reports disturbed sleep due to allergic pruritus
chlorpheniramine
Which intervention is useful in promoting comfort for the client experiencing a headache?
cold therapy
Which response indicates that a beta blocker prescribed for persistent ventricular tachycardia is working effectively
decreased heart rate
A client with chronic renal failure stops responding to the treatment. On examination, the primary health care provider determines that the client is terminally ill. Which is the correct nursing intervention in this situation
encourage the family members to provide palliative care to the client
which complication will a nurse monitor for before replacement steroid therapy is regulated fully in a client who has had an adrenalectomy
hypotension
which intervention regarding skin care would the nurse include in a teaching plan for the client with scleroderma
keep skin lubricated with lotion
the nurse is assisting a health care provider to perform a sigmoidoscopy. in which position would the nurse place the client for this procedure?
knee-chest
The nurse understands that megestrol is most often used to treat which issue
palliative management of cancer
Which action would the nurse implement in a male client who reports an inability to void after undergoing a cystoscopy and biopsy of the prostate gland due to dysuria, nocturia, and difficulty starting a urinary stream
palpate above the pubic symphysis
A client on hospice care is receiving palliative treatment. Which is the goal of palliative care for this client?
relieve the client's discomfort
which intervention would provide comfort to the client experiencing alcohol toxicity?
stay with the client
Which intervention relieves integumentary itching, promoting comfort of the client exposed to poison ivy?
wet compress
