A 30-year-old female client complains she is tired of taking the prescribed medications to treat her active tuberculosis (TB). She asks the nurse, “When can I stop taking all this medication and get on with my life?” The nurse’s best response is

After a bronchoscopy procedure, the client coughs up sputum which contains a scant amount of blood. What is the best nursing action at this time?

The nurse assesses a client who is recovering from a thoracentesis of the left lung. Which assessment finding requires the nurse to take immediate action?

A client with laryngeal edema is being treated with humidified oxygen and is being monitored frequently for respiratory distress. Which assessment finding indicates the urgent need for further intervention?

A nurse cares for a client who has packing inserted for posterior nasal bleeding. Which action should the nurse take first?

The client experiencing respiratory distress is fitted with a Bi-Level Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP) mask, which:

A client is 1 day postoperative and has an oxygen saturation that has dropped from 95% to 88%. The nurse assesses the client and finds the client to have shallow diminished breath sounds. What is the priority nursing intervention?

In a patient with a long history of COPD, which of the following complications would the nurse monitor for?

A 74-year-old patient with a history of heart failure is admitted with complaints of increasing fatigue and weight gain of 4 pounds in the past two days. The patient reports shortness of breath when lying flat. Which assessment is the nurse’s priority?

Explain the significance of the title of James Joyce’s story, “The Dead.” You should provide a summary of the story (about 5 sentences) and then explain the meaning of the story’s title.  You should write fifteen sentences for this response.