Answer to Question 1
A
The nurse must make overt what is covert, that is, the possibility of suicide must be openly addressed. The patient often feels relieved to be able to talk about suicidal ideation and tends to respond candidly to candid inquiries. Conveying that one does not understand can increase patient despair or self-loathing (for being ineffectual in communications). Try to stay hopeful is a clich that suggests that staff do not appreciate how truly distressed and despondent the patient is feeling. Encouraging hopefulness and focusing on things the patient used to enjoy both serve as obstacles to the patient's efforts to convey his present feelings and interfere with addressing these feelings.
Answer to Question 2
A, B, C
The nurse should teach signs and symptoms of side effects, provide information about the drug, and have the client and significant other verbally explain when it is necessary to call the physician. The nurse should never provide written information about decreasing dosages without contacting the physician. The physician will determine whether side effects can be controlled, or if dosage adjustments are necessary. In addition, improvement in symptoms is most likely the desired effect of the medication and ensures that the dosage and medications are correct.
Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
A nurse prepares a client for anesthesia and surgery.
The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
Positioning the Patient in the Fowler’s Position
Preoperative and Postoperative Patient Instructions
(A) PET scan of a healthy patient. (B) PET scan of a patient with schizophrenia. This patient will ...