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A  26 year old female patient is being seen in the urgent care clinic for dysuria and urinary urgency but has no fever. She  provides a urine sample for urinalysis via a dipstick.  The nurse notes that the urine is hazy and the presence of  levels of  leukocyte esterase.  What is the most appropriate intervention by the nurse? 

An American River College student nurse is studying clinical judgment theories and is working with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Model of Clinical Judgment. How can the student nurse best generalize layer 3 of this model?

This represents a shift in the traditional roles of patients and their families from one of passive “order taker” to one of active “team member”?

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A 28-year-old male patient has been admitted due to third-degree burns on both calves, requiring a skin graft. The care plan entails a 3-day inpatient stay followed by 6 months of outpatient treatment, including home care and dressing changes. When is the most appropriate time for the nurse to commence the educational plan.

The daughter of D.T. comes to the hospital and sees that her mother is now ill with pneumonia with a fever, green sputum, and tachypnea.  She wants to know when her mother will be able to come home. D.T. must be able to meet the following requirements: [oxygenation] and [symptom1] and [symptom2] and [symptom3]

Directions: Choose the best answer for each question.   Participles can…

A home healthcare nurse receives a prescription from a physician for a medication that the patient is reluctant to take due to a history of experiencing side effects from this medication. The nurse attentively listens to the patient’s concerns, takes their condition into account, evaluates the suitability of the medication, and explores alternative treatment options. What should be the nurse’s most appropriate course of action?

A nurse is caring for a patient with congestive heart failure (CHF) and has select

An acute care nurse has committed a serious medication error and has reported the error to the hospital’s adverse medication error hotline as well as to the unit manager. The manager is a firm believer in developing critical thinking skills. From this standpoint, what action by the manager would best nurture this ability in the nurse who made the error?