A nurse is admitting a client. Review the exhibits to answer the question.

Exhibits

For each potential provider's prescription, click to specify if the prescription is anticipated or contraindicated.

When caring for a patient with burns, which assessment data will alert the nurse to the possibility of a local infection of the burned area?

A nurse is reinforcing discharge teaching with a client who has pulmonary edema and is about to start taking furosemide.

Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

Which of the following are risk factors for Hepatitis B?

Select all that apply.

A nurse is explaining to a client who is preparing for emergency surgery due to a small bowel obstruction.

The client is anxious and doesn’t understand what the surgeon means by “adhesions” causing the blockage.

Which of the following statements is the best response from the nurse?

A nurse is caring for a patient admitted with a lower respiratory infection.

After assisting the patient to bed and applying the prescribed oxygen, which finding would help the nurse evaluate the effectiveness of the nursing care?

The nurse is caring for an 85-year-old patient with septic shock.

What should the nurse consider when repositioning this patient?

A nurse is helping a postoperative patient following a total hip arthroplasty into a supine position.

Which of the following actions is appropriate to prevent hip dislocation?

The nurse is reviewing orders for a patient in anaphylactic shock.

Which medications should the nurse plan to administer first?

Which of the following conditions could potentially lead to a gastrointestinal bleed? (Select all that apply.)

A patient with acute pancreatitis is in severe pain.

Which position should the nurse suggest the patient to assume?