Author Question: A client with HIV has been admitted to a health care facility. Which of the following nursing ... (Read 127 times)

jc611 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A client with HIV has been admitted to a health care facility. Which of the following nursing diagnoses should be of the highest priority, keeping in mind the client's condition?

A) Risk for activity intolerance
B) Risk for ineffective coping
C) Risk for infection
D) Risk for imbalanced nutrition

Question 2

A nurse is caring for a client who is being treated for several intractable wounds. The client has been put on hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). How could the nurse avoid oxygen toxicity for this client?

A) By delivering 100 oxygen at two times normal atmospheric pressure
B) By reducing the treatment time from 90 minutes to 30 minutes
C) By providing brief periods of breathing room air
D) By performing the therapy once every 2 weeks

al · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
Feedback:
Clients with HIV have decreased immunity and are prone to infections. Infection in a client with HIV is life-threatening, because it makes the client vulnerable to other infections, and also impairs his or her already weakened immune functions. Clients with HIV may not have problems with other activities and food. They may often feel depressed, but this is not the highest priority.

Answer to Question 2

C
Feedback:
The nurse can prevent oxygen toxicity from occurring in a client on HBOT by providing the client with brief periods of breathing room air. HBOT consists of the delivery of 100 oxygen at three times the normal atmospheric pressure within an airtight chamber. Treatments, which last 90 minutes are repeated over days, weeks, or months of therapy. Reducing the amount of time oxygen is delivered over the atmospheric pressure, reducing the treatment time, or performing the therapy once in 2 weeks would not help to prevent oxygen toxicity in a client.