A nurse is caring for an 84-year-old female client in her home and is discussing caregiver stress with the client’s daughter.

Exhibits

Select the 3 statements that the nurse should include when discussing caregiver stress with the client’s daughter.

An older adult client who cares for her husband at home has just learned that she needs to have knee replacement surgery.

She tells the nurse she is concerned about her inability to provide care to her husband while she recovers from surgery and attends physical therapy.

She has a friend who can drive her to and from her appointments once she is discharged, but cannot provide the care her husband needs.

How should the nurse respond to the client?

The nurse has received funding to design a health promotion project for African-American women who are at risk for developing breast cancer.
Which resource is most important in designing this program?

A female client is taking alendronate, a bisphosphonate, for postmenopausal osteoporosis. The client tells the nurse that she is experiencing jaw pain.

How should the nurse respond?

A client sustained a head injury when hit by a lead pipe two hours ago and is admitted for observation after the computerized tomography (CT) scan indicates that no spinal cord injury and no skull fractures are present.

When the client begins projectile vomiting, the nurse quickly turns the client's head to the side and administers ondansetron 4 mg IV as prescribed.

Reassessment indicates that the client's Glasgow coma score is 13 and the left pupil is dilated without reaction to light.

Which intervention(s) should the nurse implement? Select all that apply.

Following a cardiac catheterization and placement of a stent in the right coronary artery, the nurse administers prasugrel to the client.
To monitor for adverse effects from the medication, which assessment is most important for the nurse to include in this client's plan of care?

The healthcare provider (HCP) prescribes 0.99% normal saline 500 mL IV bolus to be infused over 30 minutes. How many mL/hour should the nurse set the infusion pump? (Enter numerical value only) .

A nurse is caring for a 24-year-old female client in the emergency department (ED).

What is the most likely diagnosis for this client, based on the history, physical exam, and diagnostic results?

After the nurse witnesses a preoperative client signing the surgical consent form, the nurse signs the form as a witness. Which is the legal implication of the nurse's signature on the client's surgical consent form? Select all that apply.

The healthcare provider prescribes a 5% dextrose injection with 20 units of regular insulin for a client with a serum potassium level of 6.0 mEq/L (6.0 mmol/L) and glucose level of 180 mg/dL (10.0 mmol/L). Which evaluation is most important for the nurse to include in this client's plan of care?

Scenario

A nurse is caring for a 26-year-old gravida 2 para 1 female client in the labor and delivery unit. The client delivered vaginally three years ago under epidural anesthesia. She is now in active labor and has been admitted for monitoring and pain management.