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@Brianna17

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Good nursing care of a patient who has had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) can improve the patient's chance of survival and minimize the limitations that impair a full recovery.
 
  In the acute phase, nursing efforts should prioritize which of the following aims? A) Teach compensatory techniques for impaired communication.
  B) Talk to the patient during routine activities.
  C) Initiation of rehabilitation.
  D) Maintain a patent airway.

Question 2

The patient, age 35, is admitted with aplastic anemia. He asks the nurse what aplastic anemia is. An accurate response would be that
 
  a. the activity of the bone marrow is depressed.
  b. the bone marrow fails to produce lymphocytes.
  c. the bone marrow fails to produce red blood cells.
  d. red cells are absent as a result of chronic blood loss.



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Answer to Question 1

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Maintaining a patent airway is an aim of nursing efforts for any patient who has had a CVA and would supersede the other noted interventions.

Answer to Question 2

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Aplastic anemia or aplasia (a hematological term for a failure of the normal process of cell generation and development) has two etiologic classifications: congenital and acquired. All three major blood elements (RBCs, WBCs, platelets) are reduced or absent.




@Brianna17

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Reply 2 on: Jul 11, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


parshano

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Wow, this really help

 

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