A nurse in an outpatient surgical center is teaching a client ...

[saliriagwu]

A nurse in an outpatient surgical center is teaching a client about what will be necessary for discharge to home. What information should the nurse include about transportation?
 
  A) The client is not allowed to drive a car home.
  B) If the client is not dizzy, driving a car is allowed.
  C) Only adults over the age of 25 may drive home.
  D) None; this is not necessary information.

Question 2

A young woman has been in an automobile crash that resulted in an amputation of her left lower leg. She verbalizes grief and loss. What knowledge by the nurse is used to provide interventions to help the client cope?
 
  A) The client should be grateful to be alive.
  B) This is a normal, appropriate response.
  C) This is an abnormal, inappropriate response.
  D) Tissue healing will help the client adapt.

[zenzy]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: A
After outpatient surgery, clients may go home when they are no longer dizzy or drowsy, have stable vital signs, and have voided. Clients are not allowed to drive a car home.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B
Many surgical clients have the same reaction to loss of a body part as they would to a death. A surgical client's grief is a normal, appropriate response. The nurse must be aware of the client's needs and provide interventions to meet those needs in coping with change.