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HCHenry

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A 36-year-old man with a complex medical history is frail and emaciated and recently fainted due to weakness. He has a history of movement disorder and has been prescribed appropriate drugs to treat it.
 
  A priority nursing assessment will be to question him concerning his
  A) professional life.
  B) marriage and sexual health.
  C) nutritional intake.
  D) mental and emotional well-being.

Question 2

A patient has expressed anxiety to the nurse surrounding the thought of being awake but unable to move or express pain during surgery.
 
  The patient states that she recently saw a movie that addressed this phenomenon and that she is consequently fearful about her impending surgery. How should the nurse best reassure this patient?
  A) Actually, the same drugs that make you unconscious are the ones that keep you from moving.
  B) The whole surgical team will be monitoring you very closely throughout the procedure to make sure that things like this don't happen.
  C) When you're unable to move because of the drugs that you're given, you're also unable to feel pain.
  D) We will teach you signals to use in the unlikely event that you wake up during your surgery.


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IAPPLET

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Reply #1 on: Jul 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B


HCHenry

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Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
:D TYSM

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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