Your secondary assessment of a patient who is complaining of pain in his right leg reveals an opening in the skin where the fractured tibia broke through the skin and retreated back into the leg. You would recognize this injury as a(n):
a. open fracture.
b. closed fracture.
c. laceration.
d. partial fracture.
Question 2
Which of the following signs has the potential for the most immediate life-threatening consequences?
a. Deformity of the femur
b. An open fracture of the forearm
c. Dislocation of two fingers
d. Crepitus in the mid-humerus
Sharing patient information with colleagues is an important nursing role
When using an interpreter, the nurse should pose questions directly to the patient, not the interpre
Stained section of cerebral cortex from autopsy of a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
A hearing-impaired patient using an interpreter.
Assisting the patient to transfer from the bed or examining table to a wheelchair.
Gingival enlargement in a patient taking nifedipine.