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   A patient with renal calculi hospitalized with gross hematuria and severe colicky left flank pain.  Which nursing action will be of highest priority?    

Your patient, admitted to the hospital with a pre-renal condition, asks the nurse what could have caused this problem. As the nurse your response should include which information?

A patient has cranial surgery with left hemiplegia. After their acute stay and in the acute care rehabilitation setting your assessment and intervention for neglect would be: (Select all that apply)  

The emergency department nurse is caring for a patient who has been brought in by ambulance after sustaining a fall at home. The patient is exhibiting an altered level of consciousness.  Following a skull x-ray, the patient is diagnosed with a basilar skull fracture.  Upon assessment, which sign should alert the nurse to this type of fracture?  

While caring for a dialysis patient you get a call from the Dialysis nurse. What should you communicate? 

A patient post op craniotomy is being assessed by you. What are your priorities for this patient?    

After noting that a patient with a head injury has clear nasal drainage, which action should the nurse take?    

You are caring for a patient with head trauma after a MVA and has a closed head injury. On CT the injury a concussion with small punctuate defuse bleeds and cerebral edema. You anticipate that_________________ medications will help treat the cerebral edema.  Select all that Apply.  This is a SATA question.

Which type of head injury is characterized by: loss of consciousness, a period of lucidity, and then a rapid to gradual loss of consciousness again?  

Your patient is in the diuretic phase of acute renal failure.  During this phase, he should be assessed for signs of: