Q37.  A nurse is caring for a client who is postoperative following abdominal surgery. Which of the following findings should indicate to the nurse the client’s peristalsis is returning?

Q26 The nurse is providing care to a client who is experiencing urinary retention.  What diagnostic tool would the nurse anticipate using?

Q42.  Which menu choice by the patient with diverticulosis is best for preventing diverticulitis?

Q24.  The nurse is caring for a patient the first postoperative day following a laparotomy for a small bowel obstruction. The nurse notices new bright-red drainage about 5 cm in diameter on the dressing. Which action would the nurse take first?

Trauma requiring transfusion of 8 pints of blood is most likely to cause acute renal failire of ____________ origin.

  Q36.  A client with paraplegia resulting from a T9 spinal cord injury has a neurogenic bladder. Which action will the nurse include in the plan of care?

Nitrites may be falsely negative in urine if: (1) The urine was in the bladder for only a short time; (2) No nitrate was present in the urine; (3) The nitrite was reduced to nitrogen; (4) The infectious agents are non-nitrate reducers.

Optimal viewing is obtained by performing Köhler illumination adjustment to the:

High doses of vitamin C may cause a false negative result on the _____ test.

Which of the following tests can be used to detect urinary galactose?