A nurse is admitting a client to the emergency department after a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Which of the following actions should the nurse take to help prevent the onset of acute kidney failure?

A nurse in a provider's office is teaching a client about the self-management of GERD.

Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

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 teaching a client who has diabetes mellitus about foot care.

Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

A nurse is caring for a client admitted with a skull fracture.

Which of the following assessment findings should be of greatest concern to the nurse?

A nurse is caring for a client who has advanced liver disease.

Which of the following laboratory results should the nurse monitor when assessing this client?

A nurse is caring for a client who had a total hip arthroplasty.

Which of the following actions should the nurse take to prevent hip dislocation?

A nurse is reviewing the medical record of a client who is to undergo open heart surgery.

Which of the following findings should the nurse report to the provider as a contraindication to receiving heparin?

A nurse is assessing a client who has right-sided heart failure.

Which of the following assessment findings should the nurse expect to find?

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 providing discharge teaching about blood glucose monitoring for a client who has a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

The nurse should instruct the client to obtain which of the following supplies?