Nurses working with adolescents should encourage the adolescents ...

[littleanan]

Nurses working with adolescents should encourage the adolescents to assume more of the responsibility for their healthy behaviors.
 
  To promote this personal responsibility, the nurse will want to provide adolescents with information about which health promotion activities? 1. Self-breast exams for girls and self-testicular exams for the boys
  2. Immunizations that need to be updated
  3. Communicable diseases that are prevalent in the community
  4. The importance of eating together as a family several times a week

Question 2

As a result of opioid administration, a child's respirations are slow and shallow. The nurse would expect that lab changes that might be noted in response to the changes in the child's uncompensated respiratory pattern would include:
 
  1. Increased PCO2 and respiratory acidosis.
  2. Decreased PCO2 and respiratory alkalosis.
  3. Low pH and low PCO2.
  4. High pH and high PCO2.

[fatboyy09]

Answer to Question 1

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Rationale 1: Self-breast/testicular exams are appropriate areas for adolescents to begin assuming health surveillance behaviors.
Rationale 2: While it is appropriate to inform the adolescent of needed immunizations, the nurse will include the parents in sharing this information.
Rationale 3: Knowing what communicable diseases are prevalent will not help the adolescent assume responsibility for health care.
Rationale 4: While this is healthy for the adolescent, it is not an area that the adolescent can control. This topic should be discussed with the adolescent and the parents together.
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Answer to Question 2

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Rationale 1: Due to inadequate respirations, the child retains CO2 and develops respiratory acidosis.
Rationale 2: This statement is incorrect as the child retains carbon dioxide.
Rationale 3: The pH would be acidic, but the pH would be high.
Rationale 4: The child would have a low pH (acidosis) and high PCO2.
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