A high school lacrosse player started wearing a KO during practice out of fear after his teammate lost his athletic scholarship due to an MCL rupture. This type of KO would be classified as a ________ orthosis.

A nurse is instructing a group of students about measuring a client’s respirations. Which guideline should the nurse include?

An hour after administration of an opioid analgesic , a client denies any pain relief. What nonpharmacologic action can the nurse provide to help relieve pain?

Which pain chart would the nurse use to measure a 5-year-old’s pain?

When caring for a client on dialysis the nurse’s priority action before obtaining a blood pressure would be to check which item below?

While assessing a client’s pulse, a nurse identifies that the pulse obliterates. What did the nurse identify?

A nurse would recognize that further instruction was needed if a nursing student expressed the assumption that a client:

A wife is extremely upset about her husband’s respirations. The nurse explains the pattern is called Cheyne-Stokes and is characterized by:

The nurse caring for a client complaining of severe abdominal pain asks the client if they have nausea or vomiting. What pain characteristic is the nurse gathering data on?

Which documentation by the nurse indicates an abnormal finding in a healthy adult client?