A client has developed severe pain that has not been relieved by the ordered narcotic analgesic, sluggish capillary refill, weak pulses, and numbness below the casted limb. A nurse should suspect the client has developed which fracture complication?

Osteomyelitis is frequently the result of:

The nurse is assisting with the discharge of a patient from a clinic after evaluation of a perforated eardrum. The patient is advised not to shower. Which of these, if stated by a patient, indicates to the nurse correct understanding of the teaching?

Treatment of a fracture that does not involve surgical intervention is called:

Briefly describe the difference (causes, symptoms treatments) in Osteoarthrits, Rheumatoid arthritis and Gout:    Must include info on all three!

For a client having an episode of acute narrow-angle glaucoma, a nurse expects to give which of the following medications?

A nurse is caring for a client following a complete spinal cord transection injury. The client’s family asks the nurse what the term paraplegia means. Which of the following responses should the nurse make?

The nurse is teaching a patient whose Snellen chart findings are 20/60. Which of the following statements would the nurse include in the patient teaching?

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with the family of a client who is in a halo fixation device. Which of the following statements should the nurse make?

A patient who is severely brain damaged has decerebrate posturing with extended extremities. The nurse understands that damage most likely occurred in which area of the brain?