Answer to Question 1
B
During the life review, if patients can see that their lives were meaningful and worth living, then a sense of ego integrity emerges. The nurse can best assist this by asking the patient to relate memories that evoke pride in accomplishments. The other topics can be used to guide a life re-view but are too narrow in focus to be the best answer.
Answer to Question 2
B
Many drugs are renally excreted, and there are age-related reductions in renal function. The nurse wanting to assess for such factors that influence the selection of drugs would most likely anticipate the patient having renal function studies done, including an evaluation of the patient's glomerular filtration rate.
A, A nurse is adding a medication to an IV line as a piggyback
B, The nurse teaches the postoperative client to use an incentive spirometer to expand the lungs.
Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Cherries and Peaches.
A goniometer is used to measure range of motion of the patient’s arm.
Action of penicillinase.
Life cycle of Coccidioides immitis.