A nurse is educating a client after surgery for laryngeal cancer about a full liquid diet.

What selection made by a client indicates to a nurse that the teaching was effective?

A nurse is preparing to discharge a patient who is post-operative following a laryngectomy. The nurse should recognize which of the following discharge teaching as the highest priority?

A nurse is caring for a postoperative client experiencing shallow respirations and refusing to cough or get out of bed to the chair.

The nurse should educate the client about the increased risk of which complication?

A nurse is preparing to administer cefaclor 500 mg PO every 12 hours.

If the available cefaclor oral suspension is 250 mg/5 mL, how many mL should the nurse administer per dose?

A nurse is reviewing incident reports submitted during the previous month.

The nurse should identify which of the following as a problem that should be reported to the risk manager?

What condition is the patient most likely experiencing, what two actions should the nurse take to address that condition, and what two parameters should the nurse monitor to assess the patient’s progress?

A nurse is caring for a patient who has just returned to the unit following a bronchoscopy and requests coffee.

The nurse assesses that it is safe for the patient to resume oral liquids when which of the following behaviors is demonstrated?

A nurse is caring for a client diagnosed with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and being treated with positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP). How does PEEP benefit the client?

A nurse is part of a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) committee tasked with developing a program to decrease medication administration errors following a sentinel event.

Which strategy should the committee consider implementing first?

A nurse is caring for a client diagnosed with pneumonia who has labored breathing and copious tracheobronchial secretions.

What priority action should the nurse encourage with the client?

A nurse is developing a plan of care for a patient on a ventilator, to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia. The nurse recognizes that which of the following interventions should be included? Select all that apply.