Author Question: The nurse identifies the challenge of being a hospice nurse as including: Standard Text: Select all ... (Read 46 times)

tth · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

The nurse identifies the challenge of being a hospice nurse as including: Standard Text: Select all that apply.

1. Being empathetic
2. Being mentally healthy
3. Being spiritually healthy
4. Being professionally healthy
5. Being self-protective

Question 2

The nurse documents crackles in the lung field when which of the following is heard?

1. A low-pitched snoring sound
2. A high-pitched musical sound
3. Air passing through narrowed air passages
4. Air passing through fluid or mucus

javimendoza7 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

1,2,3
Rationale: The nurse must be empathetic with the client and family in order to assist them with death and dying.

Answer to Question 2

4
Rationale: Air passing through fluid or mucus will sound like a crackling noise. Air passing through narrowed passages is termed rhonchi, described as a low-pitched snoring sound. A high-pitched musical sound is wheezing.