PNU 133 Honan PrepU Collaboration / Teamwork & Collaboration
The nurse is providing care for a patient in the hospital scheduled for discharge in the morning. The patient will require further services after discharge since recovery is not complete. What can the nurse do to ensure quality care delivery for this patient?
Contact the case manager for coordination of care prior to discharge of the patient.
The nurse educator is planning a teaching session for nursing students related to the treatment and management of gestational diabetes. The nurse educator arranges for a dietitian, pharmacist, and physician assistant to participate in the lesson plan. Which professional nurse competency is the nurse educator demonstrating?
Interdisciplinary teamwork
Which points should be included in the medication teaching plan for a client taking adalimumab?
It is important to monitor for injection site reactions.
The nurse is providing discharge instructions to a client with heart failure preparing to leave the following day. What type of diet should the nurse request the dietitian to discuss with the client?
Low-sodium diet
The nurse is caring for a client in the hospital who has been taking an analgesic for pain related to a chronic illness and has developed a tolerance to the medication. What is the most appropriate action by the nurse?
Consult with the prescriber regarding the need for an increased dose of the drug and not to reduce the frequency of administration.
Which of the following nursing interventions contributes to achieving a client's pain relief?
Collaborate with the client about his or her goal for a level of pain relief.
A nurse educator is preparing to discuss immunodeficiency disorders with a group of fellow nurses. What would the nurse identify as the most common secondary immunodeficiency disorder?
AIDS
The physician is attending to a 72-year-old client with a malignant brain tumor. Family members report that the client rarely sleeps and frequently reports seeing things that are not real. Which intervention is an appropriate request for the hospice nurse to suggest to the physician?
Add haloperidol to the client's treatment plan.
A nurse is completing an assessment of a client with suspected acromegaly. To assist in making the diagnosis, which question should the nurse ask?
"Has your shoe size increased recently?"
A client receiving antiretroviral therapy reports "not urinating enough." What is the nurse's bestaction?
Assess blood urea nitrogen and creatinine.
A client has been experiencing a decrease in serum calcium. After diagnostics, the physician believes the calcium level fluctuation is due to altered parathyroid function. What is the role of parathormone?
increase serum calcium level
When caring for a client with advanced cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy, which assessment finding should the nurse report immediately?
Change in the client's handwriting and/or cognitive performance
Which term most precisely refers to the incision of the common bile duct for removal of stones?
Choledocholithotomy
The nurse is caring for a client with atrial fibrillation. What procedure would be recommended if drug therapies did not control the dysrhythmia?
Elective cardioversion
The client is consulting with a physician regarding a potential diagnosis of Ménière's disease. The nurse is assisting in positional testing and documentation. Which diagnostic test would the nurse anticipate to obtain a more precise evaluation of vestibular function?
Electronystagmography
A patient has been diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF). The health care provider has ordered a medication to enhance contractility. The nurse would expect which medication to be prescribed for the patient?
Digoxin
A nurse cares for a client with iron-deficiency anemia. Which treatment will the nurse anticipate the client receiving?
Oral iron supplementation
The nurse is monitoring a client's postoperative course after an appendectomy. The nurse's assessment reveals that the client has vomited, has abdominal tenderness and rigidity, and has tachycardia. The nurse reports to the physician that the client has signs/symptoms of which complication?
Peritonitis
A client has lost mobility following a stroke. The nurse has established interventions that include providing direct care to the client, teaching, making referrals, and managing the case, to meet the goal. The next step is to
Plan with the client how to incorporate the regimen into the client's activities of daily living.
The scrub nurse is responsible for:
Preparing the sterile instruments for the surgical procedure
The nurse is working at a blood donation clinic. What teaching should the nurse provide to the donor immediately after blood donation?
Remain for observation after eating and drinking.
The client is admitted for a scheduled cardiac catheterization. On the morning of the procedure, while assessing the client's morning laboratory values, the nurse notes a blood urea nitrogen (BUN) of 34 mg/dL and a creatinine of 4.2 mg/dL. What priority reason will the nurse notify the healthcare provider?
The client is at risk for renal failure due to the contrast agent that will be given during the procedure.
When should the nurse plan the rehabilitation of a patient who is having an ischemic stroke?
The day the patient has the stroke
Nursing students are reviewing information about attitudes related to death and dying. The students demonstrate understanding of the information when they identify which of the following as most accurate?
There remains a conspiracy of silence about dying despite progress in the area.
The presence of mucus and pus in the stools suggests which condition?
Ulcerative colitis
A client with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection reports difficulty seeing. The physician determines that the client is developing CMV retinitis. What medication does the nurse anticipate the client will receive for this?
foscarnet
An oncologist advises a client with an extensive family history of breast cancer to consider a mastectomy. What type of surgery would the nurse include in teaching?
prophylactic
A client with a history of an anterior wall myocardial infarction is being transferred from the coronary care unit (CCU) to the cardiac step-down unit (CSU). While giving a report to the CSU nurse, the CCU nurse says, "His pulmonary artery wedge pressures have been in the high normal range." What additional assessment information would be important for the CSU nurse to obtain?
pulmonary crackles
The nurse receives a telephone call from a client with an implanted pacemaker who reports a pulse of 68 beats per minute, but the pacemaker rate is set at 72 beats per minute. What is the nurse's best response?
"Please come to the clinic right away so that we may interrogate the pacemaker to see if it is malfunctioning."
Pharmacologic therapy frequently is used to dissolve small gallstones. It takes about how many months of medication with UDCA or CDCA for stones to dissolve?
6 to 12
After a thyroidectomy, the client develops a carpopedal spasm while the nurse is taking a BP reading on the left arm. Which action by the nurse is appropriate?
Administer IV calcium gluconate as ordered.
The OR personnel responsible for maintaining the safety of the client and the surgical environment is the:
Circulating nurse
The nurse is working with community groups. At which of the following locations would the nurse anticipate a possible scabies outbreak?
College dormitory
Which diagnostic test is done to determine a suspected pituitary tumor?
Computed tomography
A male client has been receiving a continuous infusion of weight-based heparin for more than 4 days. The client's PTT is at a level that requires an increase of heparin by 100 units per hour. The client has the laboratory findings shown above. What is the most important action for the nurse to take?
Consult with the physician about discontinuing heparin.
A 50-year-old client is an alcoholic. The client has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent surgery to remove the tumor. Despite the tumor being removed, the physician informs the client that chemotherapy needs to be started immediately. Using evidence-based practice, which intervention might the nurse expect the physician to include, with the goal of improving quality of life, mood, and median survival.
Palliative care
The nurse administers an injection to a client with AIDS. When finished, the nurse attempts to recap the needle and sustains a needlestick to the finger. What is the priority action by the nurse?
Report the incident to the supervisor.
A nurse who is part of the surgical team is involved in setting up the sterile tables. The nurse is functioning in which role?
Scrub role
The nurse is working at an institution that uses a collaborative practice model. Which of the following would most likely be reflected at this institution?
Shared accountability for care
The nurse is assisting in the transport of a client with an indwelling catheter to the diagnostic studies unit. Which action made by the nursing assistant would require instruction?
The nursing assistant places the drainage bag on the client's abdomen for transport.
The nurse is working with a client who has had an allo-hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). The nurse notices a diffuse rash and diarrhea. The nurse contacts the physician to report that the client has symptoms of
graft-versus-host disease.
The nurse is caring for a client newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis who is overwhelmed by learning about the disease. The client indicates understanding that there is a disruption in the covering of axons but does not remember what the covering is called. The nurse should tell the client:
that the covering is called myelin and that it can be discussed further at the next meeting.
A nurse is assisting the physician conducting a cystogram. The client has an intravenous (IV) infusion of D5W at 40 ml/hr. The physician inserts a urinary catheter into the bladder and instills a total of 350 ml of a contrast agent. The nurse empties 500 ml from the urinary catheter drainage bag at the conclusion of the procedure. How many milliliters does the nurse record as urine?
150
The nurse is preparing a client for upcoming electrophysiology (EP) studies and possible ablation for treatment of atrial tachycardia. What information will the nurse include in the teaching?
During the procedure, the dysrhythmia will be reproduced under controlled conditions.
The client with a diagnosis of heart failure reports frequently awakening during the night with the need to urinate. What explanation will the nurse offer to explain the urination?
Edema is collected in dependent extremities during the day; at night when the client lays down, it is reabsorbed into the circulation and excreted by the kidneys.
The nurse is caring for a client with a head injury. The client is experiencing CSF rhinorrhea. Which order should the nurse question?
Insertion of a nasogastric (NG) tube
The nurse is caring for a client undergoing an incisional biopsy. Which statement does the nurse understand to be true about an incisional biopsy?
It removes a wedge of tissue for diagnosis.
A nurse is assessing a client with congestive heart failure for jugular vein distension (JVD). Which observation is important to report to the physician?
JVD is noted 4 cm above the sternal angle.
The nurse and nursing assistant are moving a client who slid down in the chair. What does the nurse encourage the assistant to avoid shearing when moving the client to a higher position in the chair?
Lift the client, do not slide them.
