A nurse is getting ready to conduct a cranial nerve examination on a patient.
What steps should the nurse take to examine cranial nerve XI (Spinal Accessory)?

A nurse is teaching a class about the stages of the general adaptive syndrome (GAS). The nurse should include that which of the following is the first physiological response that occurs during GAS?

a nurse is caring for a patient who states, “I did not take my medication because my partner forgot to remind me.”. The nurse should identify that the patient is demonstrating which of the following defense mechanisms?

A nurse is caring for a patient who reports stress related to homelessness.
The nurse should identify that the patient is experiencing which of the following types of stressors?

A nurse is teaching a class about skeletal muscles.
Which of the following should the nurse identify as a function of skeletal muscles?

A nurse is assessing a patient who reports feeling stress and anxiety.

The patient appears restless and is pacing in the room.

The patient is alert and oriented to person, place, and time.

Which of the following findings is subjective?

A nurse is preparing to move a patient with left-sided weakness from a seated position in bed to a chair.
What actions should the nurse take?

A nurse administers the wrong medication to a patient. After assessing the patient, the nurse contacts the provider and completes an incident report.

 Which of the following components of professionalism is the nurse demonstrating? 

While assessing the breath sounds of a client with Parkinson’s disease, a nurse hears adventitious sounds.
How should the client’s nutritional needs be met?

A nurse is conducting a class on stress.
Which of the following would the nurse include as an example of acute stress?

In the context of an initial assessment for a client admitted to rule out Guillain-Barre syndrome, which of the following symptoms would the nurse expect to observe?