Answer to Question 1
A
Once you assist in meeting patient needs related to basic survival (how to give epinephrine), you can discuss other topics, such as nutritional needs and side effects of medications. For example, a patient recently diagnosed with coronary artery disease has deficient knowledge related to the illness and its implications. The patient benefits most by first learning about the correct way to take nitroglycerin and how long to wait before calling for help when chest pain occurs. Thus, in this situation, the patient benefits most by first learning about the correct way to take epinephrine. The patient will learn about food labels is not objective and measurable and is not correctly written.
Answer to Question 2
B
A patient's culture often influences the patient's expression of pain. In this case, the patient has just had surgery, and the nurse knows that this surgical procedure usually causes patients to experience pain. It is important at this time for the nurse to examine cultural and ethnic factors that are possibly affecting the patient's lack of expression of pain at this time. Even if surgery corrects neurological factors that create chronic pain, surgery causes pain in the acute period. Urinary retention usually creates pain and does not mask surgical pain. The nurse is not allowing personal beliefs to influence pain management because the nurse is attempting to determine the reason why the patient is not verbalizing the experience of pain.
Nurse-patient interaction; nonverbal communication
Emphysema. (a) Illustration comparing normal lungs and emphysemic lungs. The inserts illustrate how
Positioning the Patient in the Prone Position
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Cyanosis as shown here at the patient’s fingertips results from a lack of oxygen in the tissues
A patient with Cushing’s syndrome (A) before and (B) after receiving treatment. Sharmyn McGraw