A patient's feet appear to be edematous, so the nurse first
1. Charts, Patient's feet appear to be swollen.
2. Percusses the tissue that appears edematous.
3. Applies pressure over a bony prominence of the foot for 2 seconds.
4. Elevates the patient's feet on a pillow to decrease swelling.
Question 2
A stable male patient, who was just admitted for left-lower-lobe pneumonia, tells the nurse that his cough is nonproductive. When assessing the patient's breath sounds, the nurse suspects consolidation when, over the left lower lobe, she detects
1. Rales.
2. Absent breath sounds.
3. Stridor.
4. Rhonchi.
The tone of the nurse-patient introduction sets the stage for the patient interview and patient care
A, A nurse is adding a medication to an IV line as a piggyback
Stained section of cerebral cortex from autopsy of a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Patient teaching: female breast assessment
Example of a patient statement.
Severe periodontitis in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes.