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fagboi

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A nurse who provides care on a palliative unit of a busy urban hospital performs numerous task and roles in the provision of holistic care to patients and their families.
 
  Which of the following tasks is essential for nurses to manage patients at the end of life? Select all that apply.
  A) Obtain informed consent for palliative treatment measures.
  B) Educate patients and families about end-of-life decision making.
  C) Contribute to a coordinated, interdisciplinary plan of care.
  D) Manage pain and symptoms.
  E) Determine patients' qualifications for hospice care.

Question 2

A patient, age 54, is on postoperative day 2 after undergoing an open cholecystectomy. Immediately after the surgery, she vomited and may have aspirated some emesis. The nurse is concerned that the patient will develop pneumonia.
 
  In planning for her care, the nurse suspects the patient may have a. bacterial pneumonia.
  b. aspiration pneumonia.
  c. viral pneumonia.
  d. atypical pneumonia.


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katheyjon

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B, C, D

Answer to Question 2

B
Aspiration pneumonia occurs most commonly as a result of aspiration of vomitus when the patient is in an altered state of consciousness due to a seizure, drugs, alcohol, anesthesia, acute infection, or shock.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 11, 2018
Gracias!

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Excellent

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