The nurse overhears the parents of a toddler just diagnosed with cancer stating, “God, why him? Let me suffer this instead and I will make sure to give back to the community.” The nurse identifies the parents are experiencing which Kübler-Ross stages of Dying?

The family becomes distressed when the dying 85-year-old patient becomes delirious and laughs and talks with friends who have long since died. The nurse’s best intervention would be to:

The immune globulin that protects infections from occurring in areas such as the GI tract, eyes and in breast milk is:

In caring for the hospitalized patient who is HIV positive, the nurse would:

During report the nurse is told the patient was started on Vancomycin yesterday for a new MRSA infection. The receiving nurse should assess for what before hanging the am dose?

Priority education for the patient with SLE should include what teaching point to decrease the common problem of this condition would be?

The nurse is aware the HIV positive patient will be diagnosed with AIDs when the CD4 cell count drops below _________ cells/mm3.

When oral thrush, recurrent vaginal yeast infections or skin disorders appear in the HIV positive patient, the nurse assesses this as:

A client is admitted to hospital with sickle cell crisis. The nurse checks this client for which frequent symptom of the disorder?

When the nurse determines that an elderly patient has a reasonable risk of being physically abused by family members, it is the nurse’s legal obligation to: