The nurse is admitting a patient with terminal brain cancer who is legally blind in both eyes. When planning care for this patient, which is the priority for the nurse to consider?
1) Nutrition
2) Mobility
3) Communication
4) Hygiene
Question 2
During the admission assessment the patient states, I am allergic to morphine. Which response by the nurse is the priority?
1) I will note this on your chart and we will be sure not to use this if you are in pain.
2) I will ask your doctor to prescribe diphenhydramine, which will allow us to administer morphine safely.
3) What medication can you take for pain that you are not allergic to?
4) What symptoms did you experience when you were given morphine?
Measuring Patient Height
Invasion and metastasis by cancer cells
Is the self the same as the brain? Materialists contend that in the final analysis, mental states ...
Dopamine cannot cross the blood–brain barrier. Levodopa, its precursor, can. Once levodopa crosses ...
Metastasis Cancer Order
Microscopic image of prostate cancer. The tissue on the right is somewhat normal; the tissue on the ...