A nurse is caring for an older adult client.
The client has an increased risk for dehydration due to which of the following physiological changes that can occur with aging?

A nurse is planning care for a child who has severe diarrhea.
Which of the following actions is the nurse’s priority?

A charge nurse is observing a nurse administer intermittent tube feedings via an NG tube to a client.
Which of the following actions by the nurse should prompt the charge nurse to intervene?

A nurse is taking care of a patient who is nauseous and vomiting.
Which of the following acid-base imbalances should the nurse identify the patient is at risk for?

A nurse in a community clinic is collecting data from a patient who reports frequent vomiting and diarrhea for the past 3 days.
Which of the following findings should the nurse expect? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse is caring for a patient who receives intermittent enteral feedings through an NG tube.
Before administering a feeding, the nurse should measure the gastric residual for which of the following purposes?

A nurse on a medical-surgical unit suspects that several patients have Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) when they all develop watery diarrhea.

What actions should the nurse plan to take while waiting for the patients’ lab results?

The nurse is caring for a client who has a bowel obstruction and a new prescription for the insertion of a nasogastric tube.
Which of the following interventions should the nurse take when inserting the nasogastric tube?

Among the following, which is not a clinical finding of a severely dehydrated patient?

An LPN is reviewing the laboratory tests results for a client who has an elevated temperature.

The nurse should identify which of the following findings is a manifestation of dehydration.

Select all that apply.