A nurse reviews the electronic health record of a client who has Crohn’s disease and a draining fistula. Which documentation would alert the nurse to urgently contact the primary health care provider for additional prescriptions?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of icons?


The nurse identifies which laboratory value as the usual indication of hepatic encephalopathy? 

When teaching new skills, reinforcers should be delivered (e.g., after every correct response), and as the student progresses, should be thinned to an intermittent schedule of reinforcement.

________ is a teaching approach built around the three-term contingency and is delivered in quick, brief trials. 

46. A nurse is caring for a 4-year-old child who had an incident of bedwetting during hospitalization. The child’s parents expresses concern about the incident. Which of the following responses should the nurse make?

42.  A nurse is reviewing the laboratory values for a client who takes spironolactone and notes that the client’s serum potassium level is 6.8 mEq/L. The nurse notifies the provider and anticipates that the provider will provide which of the following instructions?

27. A nurse is assisting in the planning of care for a client who has acute glomerulonephritis. Which of the following interventions should the nurse recommend including in the plan of care?

49. A patient is admitted from the Emergency Department.  The physician has ordered a hypotonic crystalloid solution to be infused.  Which of the following symptoms exhibited by the patient would require immediate intervention?

30. A client is admitted to the hospital with benign prostatic hypertrophy.  The physician has placed him on Flomax (tamsulosin) every day.  Which of the following assessments is priority for the nurse to perform prior to administration of this medication?