The senior nursing students of the local college helped with a health screening. At the student meeting, the instructor suggested that the students plan to do all the screenings they could,
based upon the equipment and supplies they could personally carry to the site. What equipment or supplies should the students take?
A. Audiometer, vision chart, tape measure, scale, stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, consent forms, and some paper-and-pencil assessment tools
B. Everything in their nursing skills laboratory and just borrow a large van
C. Everything the local hospital would let them borrow, including an ambulance with which to carry the equipment
D. Their own personal equipment as well as their textbooks with which to answer any questions
Question 2
A community/public health nurse had a referral to visit a grandmother in her apartment to follow up on blood pressure readings now that she was on a new medication.
While in the apartment, the nurse took the blood pressure readings of all the adults and children there. What is the nurse attempting to do?
A. Conduct a case finding.
B. Follow the American Heart Association guidelines.
C. Give care to all members of the family, whether or not the nurse is reimbursed.
D. Make sure the entire family feels involved.
Documenting the health history is a crucial step in providing patient care
The health history can be gathered from many sources
Patients should be encouraged to bring to their health care visit all the substances that they take,
Nursing assessment questions
Techniques for applying local anesthesia: (a) topical; (b) nerve block; (c) infiltration; (d) ...
Chemical structures of ester and amide local anesthetics.