A nurse evaluates a patient’s patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump and notices 100 attempts within a 30-minute period. Which is the best rationale for assessing this patient for substance addiction?

A woman who has a long history of being battered by her husband is staying at the woman’s shelter. She has received emotional support from staff and peers and has been made aware of the alternatives open to her. Nevertheless, she decides to return to her home and marriage. Which of the following is the best response by the nurse to the woman’s decision?

A client’s blood alcohol level is 100mg/dL (0.10%).  He is clumsy and slightly off balance as he performs the roadside sobriety tests.  A second client’s blood alcohol level is 300mg/dL (0.30%).  He is clumsy and slightly off balance as he performs the roadside sobriety tests, but not appreciably more affected than the first client.  How can this be accounted for?

A nurse is teaching a novice nurse how to provide culturally competent care to patients in a culturally diverse community health clinic. Although all of the following are important to providing culturally competent nursing care, which one is most basic?

A woman with multiple cuts and abrasions, arrives at the emergency department with her three small children. She tells the nurse her husband inflicted these wounds on her. She says, “I didn’t want to come. I’m really okay. He only does this when he has too much to drink. I just shouldn’t have yelled at him.” Which of the following is the best response by the nurse?  

In the preparedness phase of disaster management, which of the following will the institution accomplish?

To prevent Wernicke’s encephalopathy in alcoholism, which of the following medications are given?

Which of the following has been implicated in the predisposition to substance abuse?

A patient who was admitted for a heroin overdose received naloxone (Narcan), which improved the breathing pattern. Two hours later, the patient reports muscle aches, abdominal cramps, shivering and says, “I feel terrible.” Which analysis is correct? THIS IS THE LAST QUESTION OF THE EXAM.  PLEASE SHOW BOTH SIDES OF YOUR SCRATCH PAPER PRIOR TO ENDING THE EXAM.

Which of the following is a characteristic often shared by both the perpetrator and the victim of family violence?