Your patient has severe peripheral arterial disease. When the lower extremities are elevated you would expect them to appear _______________ and, when they are in the dependent position you would expect them to appear _________________. Fill in the blanks:

Choose the best position for catheterization to use with a confused, 95 year old female resident.

A nurse is orienting a newly licensed practical nurse about documentation of a client’s information in the electronic health record.  Which of the following statements by the newly licensed nurse indicates understanding of the purpose of documentation?

The client has an IV of D5W that has been infusing at 92 mL/hr.  The IV infusion needs to be switched to run by gravity during a special procedure.  The IV tubing set has a drop factor of 15 drops/mL.  How many drops/min (gtt/min) should nursing set the IV infusion to infuse at during the procedure?  Round to the whole drop. No trailing zero.    ____ drops/min

Choose the best nursing action to implement when performing open system tracheostomy suctioning? 

The client has an IV of D5NS infusing at 40 drops/min (gtt/min). The IV tubing set has a drop factor of 10 drops/mL.  How many milliliters (mL) of IV fluid will the client receive in 5 hours?  Round to a whole number.     ___ mL

What is the best place for the nurse to assess for early signs of  jaundice?

A practical nurse is obtaining a patient’s radial pulse and identifies that its rhythm is irregular. What should the practical nurse do next?

What is the most important action the practical nurse can take to ensure that a midstream urine specimen does not become contaminated?

Comparing the electrostatic force and the gravitational force we can say that