Your patient has an injury to the elbow and forearm. While you are conducting the reassessment, which one of the following statements made by the patient should concern you most?
A) My arm seems to be bruising more.
B) I am still having a hard time moving my arm.
C) It hurts when I move my fingers.
D) My hand feels like it is going to sleep.
Question 2
Both low PaO2 and high PaCO2 lead to:
A) cerebral vasoconstriction.
B) coronary vasoconstriction.
C) cerebral vasodilatation.
D) coronary vasodilatation.
Nurses possess a wide variety of experiences which they take into each patient encounter.
Taking a Patient's Blood Pressure
Flexion and extension of the elbow joint.
Lung cancer. Photograph of part of a lung removed after death. The yellow area is a large tumor and
Patient Teaching Methods
Common patient positions.