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A nurse is planning to use the SBAR communication tool when calling a provider. Which of the following statements should the nurse include in the “B” step?

Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse to see relationships among the data?

Which of the following are examples of secondary prevention activities. (select all that apply)

A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, that he is nauseated, and that he “feels hot.” This type of data would be:

The nurse enters the room of a patient and encounters a strong foul odor. This is an example of ____________________ inspection. Word Choices: direct indirect first last

During a session on substance abuse, the nurse is reviewing statistics with the class. For persons aged 12 years and older, which of these illicit substances was the one most commonly used?

A gram negative bacillus was isolated from a clench-fist wound. The organism was gram negative.  The organism pit the agar and the culture emitted a characteristic bleach odor. What is the likely organism?

Which of the following morphologically resembles Streptococcus pyogenes colonies on BAP (beta hemolytic colonies) and causes pharyngitis in older children and young adults. The organism when Gram stained shows as slender, non-spore forming Gram positive rods.

You isolated gray, non-hemolytic colonies from an abdominal wound culture. You perform the following tests and obtained the listed results:Catalase                       negative A disc                            resistantCAMP                            negativeSodium hippurate      negativeBile esculin                  positivePYR                                positive The organism is most likely:

The most likely identification of a pigment-producing, anaerobic, gram-negative rod recovered from an abdominal wound that was susceptible to most antibiotics, inhibited by bile (bile susceptible) and moderately saccharolytic, is: