Answer to Question 1
B
Response:
The nurse would teach the parents how to administer desmopressin acetate, which treats diabetes insipidus, a disorder related to the posterior pituitary gland. Instructing parents to report adverse reactions to growth hormone is an intervention for growth hormone deficiency. Informing the parents that treatment will stop at the normal time of puberty is a teaching intervention for precocious puberty. Urging the parents to report signs of an acute adrenal crisis is an intervention for congenital adrenal hyperplasia. All three of these other disorders are related to the anterior pituitary.
Answer to Question 2
B
Response:
Clubbing of the nails indicates chronic hypoxemia, related to either respiratory or cardiac disease. Nails that curve inward or outward may be hereditary or linked with injury, infection, or iron deficiency anemia. Dry, brittle nails may indicate a nutritional deficiency.
A, A nurse is adding a medication to an IV line as a piggyback
Nursing student will find it funny
Nursing care plan - risk for infection
Infant: 4 weeks to 1 year.
The year 2010 was the hottest since 1880
The nurse begins the general survey