Nurses offer specialized care to their patients and the journey you are on is aimed and ensuring you are the best among the best. Remember that the test below takes 25 min, take it up and see just how high you score. All the best as you tackle it and keep calm.
Institute seizure precautions
Assess neurologic status
Place in respiratory isolation
Assess vital signs
Reverse isolation
Respiratory isolation
Standard precautions
Contact isolation
A diagnosis of AIDS and cytomegalovirus
A positive PPD with an abnormal chest x-ray
A tentative diagnosis of viral pneumonia
Advanced carcinoma of the lung
Handwashing
Wearing gloves
Using a barrier between client’s furniture and nurse’s bag
Wearing gowns and goggles
Hands
Droplet nuclei.
Milk products.
Eating utensils.
Order a stat admission CBC.
Place a urine collection bag and specimen cup at the bedside.
Place a cooling mattress on his bed.
Pad the side rails of his bed.
“I will need to take sponge baths at home to avoid exposing the wounds to unsterile bath water.”
“If any healed areas break open I should first cover them with a sterile dressing and then report it.”
“I must wear my Jobst elastic garment all day and can only remove it when I’m going to bed.”
“I can expect occasional periods of low-grade fever and can take Tylenol every 4 hours.”
Limit visits by staff.
Encourage family phone calls.
Position in a bright, busy area.
Speak soothingly and provide quiet music.
She says to her husband, “Please bring me a hamburger and french fries tomorrow when you come. I hate hospital food.”
“I told my daughter who is pregnant to either come to see me tonight or wait until I go home from the hospital.”
“I understand it will be several weeks before all the radiation leaves my body.”
“I brought several craft projects to do while the radium is inserted.”
The nurse aide is not wearing gloves when feeding an elderly client.
A client with active tuberculosis is asked to wear a mask when he leaves his room to go to another department for testing.
A client with active tuberculosis is asked to wear a mask when he leaves his room to go to another department for testing.
The nurse puts on a mask, a gown, and gloves before entering the room of a client on strict isolation.
Interrupt the procedure to inform the staff nurse that sterile gloves are not needed to remove the old dressing.
Congratulate the nurse on the use of good technique.
Discuss dressing change technique with the nurse at a later date.
Discuss dressing change technique with the nurse at a later date.
Correct illumination of the environment.
Amount of regular exercise.
The resting pulse rate.
Status of salt intake.
“If I drop the 4 X 4s on the floor, I can use them as long as they are not soiled.”
“If I drop the 4 X 4s on the floor, I can use them if I rinse them with sterile normal saline.”
“If I question the sterility of any dressing material, I should not use it.”
“I should put on my sterile gloves, then open the bottle of saline to soak the 4 X 4s.”
Masks should be worn with all client contact.
Gloves should be worn for contact with nonintact skin, mucous membranes, or soiled items.
Isolation gowns are not needed.
A private room is always indicated.
Masks should be worn with all client contact.
Gloves should be worn for contact with nonintact skin, mucous membranes, or soiled items.
Isolation gowns are not needed.
A private room is always indicated.
A lab technician rests his hand on the desk to steady it while recapping the needle after drawing blood.
An aide wears gloves to feed a helpless client.
An assistant puts on a mask and protective eye wear before assisting the nurse to suction a tracheostomy.
A pregnant worker refuses to care for a client known to have AIDS.
Bathing together.
Coughing on each other.
Sharing pacifiers.
Eating off the same plate.
Verbalizes the role of sexual activity in spread of the disorder.
Tates he will make arrangements to drop his college classes
Acknowledges the need to avoid all contact sports.
Says he will avoid close contact with his three-year-old niece.
Are you a drug user?
Do you have many sex partners?
What is your method of birth control?
How old were you when you became sexually active?
Independently ambulating around the unit.
Reading the routine preoperative education materials.
Maneuvering safely after orientation to the room.
Using a bedpan for elimination needs.
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