The nurse does not turn a client every two hours as ordered, and the client develops a pressure injury.
What legal concept applies?

A nurse working in the PACU (post-anesthesia care unit)/recovery room unit is monitoring a patient whose vital signs were stable upon arrival from the operating room. The patient’s temperature began to rise steadily the past 20 minutes and continues to rise, the heart monitor shows sinus tachycardia with a rate of 122, the patient’s blood pressure is 86/42, and pulse ox is 88% on 2 L O2 via nasal cannula.
The nurse suspects which genetic condition?

A nurse is caring for a patient with a BMI of.
Appropriate nursing interventions include:

The nurse is conducting an assessment on a client who is 36 hours postoperative following an appendectomy. During the assessment, the nurse is unable to hear any bowel sounds. The client denies passing flatus (gas). Given this information, which action is most appropriate by the nurse?

The nurse knows that infants have a high risk of hypothermia due to decreased brown fat, immature skin, and poorly developed thermoregulatory mechanism.
Which nursing intervention is done to prevent heat loss by conduction?

The RN is caring for James, an elderly man, in his home. The client’s son, Brad, is visiting and he plans to take James to the bank so that he can sign a Power of Attorney (POA) for his finances over to Brad. James tells the nurse that he is not ready for his son to take over as POA, but he doesn’t want to make him angry.
What should the nurse do next?

A nurse is preparing an in-service presentation about preventing health care associated infections (HAIs).
The nurse should include which of the following as a common cause of these infections?

Which of the following nursing diagnoses would typically NOT be associated with anemia?

The RN learns that the father of a teenage client was killed in a car accident when he was a baby, and his mother has raised him on her own.

How should the nurse interpret this family’s functionality?

A nurse is discussing the reporting of elder abuse with a newly licensed nurse.
Which of the following statements by the newly licensed nurse indicates an understanding of the teaching?

A client has a history of gastric bypass surgery within the past year. She presents to her primary care office for a check-up and states she has been troubled by several seemingly unrelated ailments: a sore tongue, tingling in her fingers, and “almost” falling several times due to lack of balance. The nurse notes that she is pale and slightly tachycardic.
Which type of anemia does the nurse suspect?