A nurse demonstrates the professional value known as altruism when caring for clients in a long-term care facility. What nursing action demonstrates this behavior?

A 45-year-old recovering heroin abuser is status post lumbar fusion and is admitted to the intensive care unit for pain management isses related to a diagnosis of degenerative disk disease and associated peripheral neuropathy. The client who is currently prescribed oxycodone/paracetamol 5 mg/325 mg two tablets every 4 hours around the clock, gabapentin 300 mg four times per day methadone 10 mg twice daily. The client is awake alert, and oriented X4 with stable vitals is able to move lower extremities bilaterally, but reports decreased sensations in feet bilaterally and reporting incisional pain as a 10 of 10 on the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)

Select the medication that can be appropriately prescribed and administered to help address the client's addiction maintenance, and postoperative pain.

Why use a specific pain intensity scale in the critical care unit?

A patient is brought to the ED by a friend who states that a tree fell on the patient’s leg and crushed it while they were cutting firewood. What priority actions should the nurse perform? (Select all that apply.)

A client is admitted to the emergency room with a respiratory rate of 7/min. Arterial blood gases (ABG) reveal the following values. Which of the following is an appropriate analysis of the ABGs? 

- pH: 7.22 (acidotic) 

- PaCO₂: 68 mm Hg (elevated, indicating respiratory cause) 

- PaO₂: 78 mm Hg (mild hypoxemia) 

- Saturation: 80% (low oxygenation) 

- Bicarbonate (HCO₃⁻): 26 mEq/L (normal, indicating no metabolic compensation)

A patient is mechanically ventilated and is receiving enteral nutrition via a nasogastric tube. To help ensure feeding tolerance, the nurse checks residual volumes every 4 hours. During a residual check later in the shift, the nurse aspirates a total residual volume of 200 mL. What action should the nurse take next?

The nurse in the ICU is caring for a client who was found unresponsive on a sidewalk. The client's blood alcohol level was three times the normal range. Which medications are commonly used for alcohol withdrawal symptoms?

You are explaining the ethical principles of nursing practice and the importance of upholding these principles to a group of junior nursing students. Which statement regarding the Code of Ethics for Nurses is most accurate?

A tracheostomy patient is experiencing regurgitation of tube feeding formula. What should be the nurse's first priority?

The Provider orders an IV weight-based medication to be infused at 4 mcg/kg/min. The patient weighs 198 lbs. You are supplied with a bag of the IV medication that reads 250mg/250 ml. How many mL/hr will you administer?

NOTE

• DO NOT write the unit/s of measurement
• DO NOT round your answer

The nurse is exploring pain assessment with a group of new nurses. Which statements are true regarding pain assessment and management? (Select all that apply, one, some, or all.)