Which therapeutic technique may be used to enhance coping in the critical care environment?

Why is restraining a competent patient against his or her wishes considered an intentional tort?

What outcomes do psychosocial and spiritual interventions have the power to employ in a patient? (Select all that apply, one, some, or all.)

A patient is brought to the ED by a friend who states that a tree fell on the patient’s leg and crushed it while they were cutting firewood. What priority actions should the nurse perform? (Select all that apply.)

Which patient finding supports the nurse's decision to place a patient in the urgent triage category?

A 45-year-old recovering heroin abuser is status post lumbar fusion and is admitted to the intensive care unit for pain management isses related to a diagnosis of degenerative disk disease and associated peripheral neuropathy. The client who is currently prescribed oxycodone/paracetamol 5 mg/325 mg two tablets every 4 hours around the clock, gabapentin 300 mg four times per day methadone 10 mg twice daily. The client is awake alert, and oriented X4 with stable vitals is able to move lower extremities bilaterally, but reports decreased sensations in feet bilaterally and reporting incisional pain as a 10 of 10 on the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)

Select the medication that can be appropriately prescribed and administered to help address the client's addiction maintenance, and postoperative pain.

The nurse is teaching a group of senior nursing students about acute pain. Which statement accurately describes the duration of acute pain?

You are explaining the importance of strict intake and output for patients with pulmonary alterations. What is the rationale for careful intake and output for patients with pulmonary alterations?

Which intervention would the nurse plan to use for a patient who was working on a construction site and now presents to the hospital with profuse sweating, a temperature of 104°F (40°C), patent airway, tachycardia, acute confusion, and anxiety?

A patient is admitted with severe malnutrition. A central venous catheter is placed in the right subclavian vein and total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is started. What medical interventions may be initiated with the onset of hyperglycemia?

A client age 56 years is experiencing withdrawal from alcohol and is placing themselves at risk for falls by repeatedly attempting to scale the bedrails. Benzodiazepines have failed to alleviate the client's agitation, and the nurse is considering obtaining an order for physical restraints to ensure client safety. The nurse should recognize that this measure may constitute: