Author Question: The nurse is making an unoccupied bed for the client who is taking a bath. The nurse strips the bed ... (Read 97 times)

kshipps · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

The nurse is making an unoccupied bed for the client who is taking a bath. The nurse strips the bed of the soiled linen by doing which of the following?

1. Bunch the linens into a ball and place them on the bedside chair while placing fresh linen.
2. Fold the linen in half repeatedly until a small enough bundle is created to remove easily.
3. Fold the linens inward toward the center of the bed repeatedly.
4. The nurse can fold one side in and place the clean linens on the bed before moving to the other side.

Question 2

The nurse is assessing the postoperative client's pain. This client had surgery two hours ago, involving the stomach, and diaphragm. What will be the most appropriate description of this client's pain?

1. Acute, neuropathic, and visceral
2. Chronic, somatic, and referred
3. Acute, visceral, referred
4. Acute, cutaneous, phantom

kardosa007 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

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Rationale: The method of folding the soiled parts under itself reduces the risk of contamination and the risk that microorganisms will be shaken into the air. Balling linen risks contaminated areas on the outer surface. Folding the linen in half is less effective than folding dirty areas inward at reducing contaminated surfaces on the outside. Option 4 describes the procedure for making an occupied bed, not an unoccupied bed.

Answer to Question 2

3
Rationale: Pain that lasts only through the recovery period is described as acute pain; neuropathic pain is the result of a disturbance of the nerve pathways either from past or continuing tissue damage that results in pain; visceral pain results from stimulation of pain receptors in the abdominal cavity, cranium, and thorax