During the examination of a patient, the nurse notices that the patient has several small, flat macules on the posterior portion of her thorax. These macules are less than 1 cm wide. Another name for these macules is:
a. Warts.
b. Bullae.
c. Freckles.
d. Papules.
Question 2
A patient tells the nurse, Sometimes I wake up at night and I have real trouble breathing. I have to sit up in bed to get a good breath. When documenting this information, the nurse would note:
a. Orthopnea.
b. Acute emphysema. c.
Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. d.
Acute shortness of breath episode.
A small sample of the great diversity of seed sizes and shapes.
Nurses possess a wide variety of experiences which they take into each patient encounter.
Nurse collaboration
Nurse administering enteral nutrition through a feeding tube.
Kaposi's sarcoma on the skin of an AIDS patient.