A nurse is caring for a patient who receives intermittent enteral feedings through an NG tube.
Before administering a feeding, the nurse should measure the gastric residual for which of the following purposes?

A nurse is caring for a child who has acute diarrhea and reports that he is thirsty.
Which of the following fluids should the nurse give the child?

An LPN is reviewing the laboratory tests results for a client who has an elevated temperature.

The nurse should identify which of the following findings is a manifestation of dehydration.

Select all that apply.

A nurse is assigned care of a patient who has HIV.
Which of the following infection control precautions should the nurse plan to use while caring for this patient?

A nurse on a medical-surgical unit suspects that several patients have Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) when they all develop watery diarrhea.

What actions should the nurse plan to take while waiting for the patients’ lab results?

A nurse is reinforcing infection control practices for hand hygiene with a group of unit nurses.
Which of the following information should the nurse reinforce in the teaching?

A nurse is taking care of a patient who is nauseous and vomiting.
Which of the following acid-base imbalances should the nurse identify the patient is at risk for?

An LPN is reviewing the laboratory test results for a client who has an elevated temperature.
The nurse should identify which of the following findings is a manifestation of dehydration? (Select all that apply)

A nurse is gathering data from a client who is experiencing hypokalemia due to nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Which of the following symptoms should the nurse anticipate? 

A nurse is caring for a 20-year-old college student with a 2-year history of bulimia nervosa. The student tells the nurse, “I know my eating binges and vomiting are not normal, but I can’t do anything about them.”. What would be a therapeutic response from the nurse?