The nurse instructs the laryngectomized client, that in order to warm the inspired air during cold weather, the client should do which?

1. The 40-year-old female who was diagnosed with a benign growth in her colon is concerned about the growth spreading. Which explanation best calms the patient’s anxiety?

When caring for a client with AIDS, the nurse is aware that this client is most at risk for developing which type of pneumonia?

When caring for a client who is on a water seal drainage system with chest tubes, the nurse can confirm that the system is intact and working when?

Upon auscultation of a coarse low-pitched sonorous rattling in the right lower lobe, the nurse has concerns the client may be developing?

The nurse explains that a serious complication of a client’s chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is cor pulmonale, and manifests itself as?

The nurse is aware that the client seeking antibiotic treatment for pharyngitis will only receive the desired medication if the condition is caused by?

The nurse is caring for a client experiencing epistaxis (nosebleed). What should the nurses’s initial intervention be to stop the epistaxis?

The nurse differentiates viral from bacterial pneumonia in that viral pneumonia causes?

The nurse instructs a patient that the pain of angina is due to ischemia of the myocardium. Which of the following would not be included in the patients teaching plan for patients with angina?