A patient with a plaster cast tells the nurse, This thing itches like crazy, and it is making me nuts. The best response by the nurse is:
1. The cast itches because air is trapped between the cast and your skin.
2. Try to ignore that. The cast will be off in a few weeks.
3. Sometimes using a hair dryer on the cool setting to blow air down the cast can relieve itching.
4. Itching is a sign of infection. Let me take your temperature.
Question 2
While providing care for a patient with skeletal traction to the right leg, a nurse would report which of the following observations to the physician?
1. The patient turns toward the right to answer the phone.
2. Traction weights hang freely.
3. Traction ropes are not crossing.
4. Purulent drainage is noted at the pin site.
Hair Tells a Tale
Nurse-patient interaction; nonveral communication
Signs and symptoms of a patient with heart failure.
Patient with osteoarthritis
A medical assistant helps the physician with a patient.