Following an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), the patient asks for orange juice. Before allowing the patient to have fluids, what is essential for the nurse to do first?

A 19-year old is brought to the ED with sudden onset of high fever, nuchal rigidity, and vomiting. The priority nursing intervention is:

In doing a breath sound assessment on a client who has left ventricular failure, the nurse would anticipate the finding of?

A nurse is performing an assessment of a 7-year-old child who is suspected of having episodes of absence seizures.  Which of the following assessment questions to the mother will assist in providing information that will identify the symptoms associated with this type of seizure?

When a patient with suspected acute ischemic stroke arrives in the ED, which brain study should be performed within 25 minutes?

An emergency department (ED) nurse receives a report that an incoming patient has a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 8. Which is the most appropriate action by the nurse?

When obtaining a health history and physical assessment for a 36-year-old female patient with possible multiple sclerosis (MS), the nurse should

A nursing diagnosis that applies to patients with Parkinson’s disease is:

A patient with unstable angina has been started on nitroglycerin. The patient reports a new-onset headache with pain 5/10. What is the nurses best response?

When obtaining the nursing history from a patient who has open-angle (chronic) glaucoma, a complaint that the nurse should expect is: