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Your 82 year old client has an increase in confusion, a temperature of 96.0 orally, and experienced a fall this morning. When completing the SBAR with the HCP, the nurse will recommend which of the following?

You’re working as the charge nurse on the medical unit. Who should you assign to care for the client with disseminated herpes zoster?

What are some communication techniques the nurse can implement for a client with a hearing deficit who uses hearing aides? Select all that apply.

The client with poor vision and peripheral neuropathy would have a care plan regarding which issues?

Which of the symptoms below are used to diagnose scleroderma?

When reviewing lab values for a patient with HIV, what is the nurse’s priority?

The nurse is caring for a 68 year old wheelchair bound male who has come to the clinical with his daughter for a routine checkup. Nurses’ Notes:  1000: Client received for a routine checkup accompanied by daughter with whom he lives. Client has paraplegia secondary to spinal cord injury. Client is alert and oriented x4. Denies pain or any problems. Daughter is concerned about “red area on his left heel.”  VS 97.9F-76-16-112/68 Lungs clear, S1S2 audible with no murmurs, gallops, rubs. Bowel sounds hypoactive. Full range of motion in bilateral upper extremities with light touch sensation intact in fingers. No feeling or movement below waist. Full passive ROM bilaterally in lower extremities. Open area noted on left heel – foul odor detected. Skin otherwise intact.  1015: Left heel wound measures 3.5cmx4cmx1cm. No undermining present. Wound bed is pink with small area of white subcutaneous tissue noted. Sligh foul odor detected. No drainage noted. Skin surrounding injury pink, warm, and dry. Provider and wound nurse notified of wound.  Which of the following would the nurse document as her finding?

Which of the following may be a cue indicating scleroderma in a patient?

A hospice nurse is caring for a client who has terminal cancer and takes PO morphine for pain relief. The client reports that he had to increase the dose of morphine this week to obtain pain relief. Which of the following scenarios should the nurse document as the explanation for this situation?

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