A nurse is completing discharge teaching with a client who has a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line in the left arm.

Which of the following instructions should the nurse include in the teaching?

A nurse is caring for a client who has hypotension, cool and clammy skin, tachycardia, and tachypnea.

In which of the following positions should the nurse place the client?

A nurse is caring for a client who has a chest tube. The client asks why the fluid in the water-seal chamber rises and falls.

Which of the following statements should the nurse make?

A nurse is monitoring a client's heart rhythm following the insertion of a permanent pacemaker.

Which of the following images should the nurse expect?

A nurse is caring for a client who is postoperative following an endoscopy with moderate (conscious) sedation.

Which of the following assessment findings is the nurse's priority?

A nurse is caring for a client who is scheduled for an abdominal paracentesis.

The nurse should plan to take which of the following actions?

A nurse is planning care for a client who has upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to a peptic ulcer.

Which of the following actions should the nurse plan to take?

A nurse is providing teaching to a client who has a deep-vein thrombosis (DVT).

Which of the following findings should the nurse identify as a risk factor for developing DVTS?

A nurse is providing preoperative teaching for a client who is having a left-sided cardiac catheterization.

Which of the following information should the nurse include in the teaching?

A nurse is teaching a client who has AIDS and wishes to continue self-care at home despite living alone.

Which of the following actions by the nurse demonstrates client advocacy?

A nurse is caring for a client who has cancer. The client tells the nurse, "I would prefer to try vitamins and minerals instead of chemotherapy." Which of the following responses should the nurse make?