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Nurses use professional standards of nursing practice while rendering care to patients. These nursing practice standards are essential because they:
 
  A. provide guidelines for active participation in clinical care management.
  B. provide a theoretical framework for how to practice.
  C. identify nursing competencies and evaluative criteria.
  D. offer guidelines for how to perform professionally, exercise care, cure, and coordination.

Question 2

A nursing student who is assessing an older adult who has smoked for the past 47 years and has been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 
  Which of the following would the nursing student expect to see upon physical examination of the patient? A. Respiratory retractions
  B. Petechiae on the skin
  C. Clubbed fingernails
  D. Pitting edema in the lower extremities


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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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The practice of professional nursing and nursing knowledge have been developed through nursing theory, global views that help to describe, predict, or prescribe activities for the practice of nursing. Competencies and evaluative criteria are established to perform tasks and procedures.

Answer to Question 2

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Inspection of the angle between the nail and nail bed normally reveals an angle of 160 degrees. A larger angle and softening of the nail bed indicate chronic oxygenation problems.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
:D TYSM

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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