A nurse is caring for a client who will undergo multiple diagnostic procedures to detect altered brain function. Which test, if ordered, should the nurse question?
A) Magnetic resonance imaging
B) Electroencephalogra m
C) Positron emission tomography
D) Endoscopy
Question 2
A 37-year-old client has never married and has remained at home with his aging mother. He has not worked since he had a paper route as a teenager so that he can remain at home to care for his mother.
She gives him a weekly allowance out of an estate left to her by her late husband. A community health nurse visits the family once a month to administer vitamin B12 injections to the mother. On one of these visits, the client confides to the nurse that he is terrified of what will happen to him when his mother dies. The nurse recognizes that the client has low self-esteem related to failure at which of Erikson's developmental tasks?
A) Trust versus mistrust
B) Initiative versus guilt
C) Identity versus role confusion
D) Ego integrity versus despair
Client receiving hemodialysis.
Developing a two part nursing diagnostic label
Nurse collaboration
Removing the sheet from underneath the client.
Nurse measuring the recumbent height of a toddler
Testing the client’s ability to feel vibrations, the knee