Answer to Question 1
B
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Patients may present with crackles, dyspnea, fever, cough, hypoxia, and changes in chest wall movement. Treatment may involve clearing the airways, delivering oxygen, and assisting ventilation. In the case of pneumothorax, treatment would also involve insertion of a chest tube to restore the negative pressure to the space between the pleura. These signs and symptoms are not the presentation of pneumonia, bronchitis, or emphysema.
Answer to Question 2
D
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Because the nurse has the greatest direct and continued contact with the patient, the nurse is in the best position to detect minute changes that ultimately determine the course of drug therapytherapeutic success or discontinuation because of adverse or unacceptable responses. The nurse would support vital functions, continue curative treatment, and institute life-saving treatment, but these actions occur regardless of drug therapy.
The tone of the nurse-patient introduction sets the stage for the patient interview and patient care
The nurse assists the patient in reflecting on his feelings
Building competency in patient centered care
Deliver abdominal thrusts to the supine unconscious patient.
Human chromosomes. (A) Female. (B) Male.