The nurse differentiates for the family active and palliative care, in that active care is:
a. centered on symptom control.
b. focused on treatment for a cure.
c. not concerned with dying.
d. covered by health insurance.
Question 2
The nurse explains that vitamin K by injection is given to the newborn at risk for hemorrhage because:
a. most mothers have a vitamin K deficiency that develops during pregnancy.
b. bacteria that synthesize vitamin K are not present in newborns.
c. vitamin K prevents the synthesis of prothrombin.
d. the newborn does not store vitamin K.
A family pedigree of a dominant trait
Nurses may collaborate with social workers, physicians, and other members of the health care team to
A nurse prepares a client for anesthesia and surgery.
Nurse collaboration
Queen Victoria and her family, and a pedigree showing the transmission of hemophilia in the British
X-linked dominant congenital generalized hypertrichosis (CGH) in a family