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A nurse administers an antihypertensive medication to a patient at the scheduled time of 0900. The nursing assistive personnel (NAP) then reports to the nurse that the patient’s blood pressure was low when it was taken at 0830. The NAP states that was busy and had not had a chance to tell the nurse yet. The patient reports feeling dizzy and light-headed. The blood pressure is re-checked, and it has dropped even lower. In which phase of the nursing process did the nurse first make a mistake ?

Which of the following does theS stand for in the SMART goal?

The nurse is monitoring the healingprocess of a patient’s open wound. Whatis the nurse’s priority action?

Listening, questioning, probing and validating the grievers concerns can bring peace and understanding is what type of counseling?

A household unit consisting of one mother, one father, all their unmarried children, their sons, sons’ wives and their children. 

A socially recognized position that people occupy.

The placing of a dead human body in a tomb; interment

A household or family unit created by one male and one female and the children from their previous marriages and may include children from the present marriage

hypoventilation                   blueness of skin due to poor circulation or inadequate oxygenation of blood  apnea                                             dyspnea when not standing or sitting erect       hyperventilation          hypertrophy, potential failure of right side of heart; obstruction of pulmonary circulation eupnea                                deficiency of oxygen or the inability to utilize oxygen in a tissue   respiratory arrest                            permanent cessation of breathing (unless medical intervention)  hypoxia                                                         reduced pulmonary ventilation tachypena                                   increased pulmonary ventilation in excess of  metabolic demand dyspnea                                                               temporary cessation of breathing   orthopnea                                                    collapse of part or all of a lung Kussmaul respiration                                  relaxed quiet breathing   cor pulmonale                 labored, gasping breathing; shortness of breath cyanosis                  abnormal collection of air in the pleural space, causes lung to collapse  atelectasis                                                accelerated respiration pneumothorax                                            rapid breathing induced by acidosis; seen in diabetes mellitus

The internal and external intercostals