A community health nurse is reviewing home care instructions with an older adult client who has a new diagnosis of heart failure.

Which of the following is the priority topic for the nurse to review with the client?

A nurse is providing discharge teaching for a client who has asthma and a new prescription for a metered-dose inhaler.

Which of the following client statements indicates an understanding of the teaching?

A nurse is assessing a client who has a new diagnosis of diverticulitis and reports that he uses multiple complementary and alternative healing therapies.

Which of the following complementary therapies should the nurse identify as contraindicated for the client?

A nurse is reviewing the medication list of a client who is being admitted with diabetes insipidus.

Which of the following medications places the client at an increased risk for developing diabetes insipidus?

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 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 assessing a client who has pericarditis.

In which of the following areas of the client's chest should the nurse place the stethoscope to best hear a pericardial friction rub? (You will find hot spots to select in the artwork below.

Select only the hot spot that corresponds to your answer.).

A nurse in the PACU is caring for a client.

Which of the following assessments is the nurse's priority?

A nurse is caring for a client who is receiving chemotherapy and requests information about acupuncture to relieve some of the side effects. Which of the following findings should the nurse identify as a contraindication to receiving this alternative therapy?

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 planning care for a client who has full-thickness burns on the lower extremities.

Which of the following interventions should the nurse include?