Movement from one health care provider to another creates stress for clients and families. Apprehension may be lessened by A) reassuring the client that everything will be OK. B) ignoring the client’s anxiety since it is common knowledge that transferring between settings is stressful. C) establishing rapport and indicating sincere concern. D) explaining procedures only […]
The nurse works in a clinic in a homeless shelter that provides crisis housing for homeless families. The nurse greets a new resident who is obviously pregnant and asks when the baby is due. The client responds, “I don’t know the exact due date. I haven’t been to the doctor because I don’t have insurance.” […]
A nurse is preparing a client for discharge. He has had diabetes for several years with widely fluctuating blood sugars. During his hospitalization, his right foot was amputated. As the nurse anticipates the client’s and family’s needs once he is home, she may ask which of the following questions? A) How are you going to […]
The home care nurse plans to teach a 73-year-old female client about her medication, including how to give herself injections of insulin. Knowing that there are often barriers to medication adherence for the elderly, the nurse should plan to do which of the following? (Select all that apply.) A) Use standardized teaching plans for insulin […]
The home care nurse has completed an assessment regarding learning needs for a newly admitted client. Data indicate the client does not understand how her wound became infected and how to keep this from occurring again. The objective that best addresses this teaching need is A) the client will state three signs and symptoms of […]
The nurse is evaluating the teaching she has done with a client and family. In order to assess the level of learning, she should ask herself which of the following questions? (Select all that apply.) A) If the teaching were to be repeated, what additional strategies should be used? B) What additional data are needed […]
The nurse is assisting parents as they prepare to take their 3-year-old daughter home after chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. They also have a 2-month-old baby and a 5-year-old son. The nurse asks them about family, friends, and community resources available to help them once they are home. She is working to achieve which of the […]
A client tells the following story about the first time she met her home care nurse, who was her case manager for many years. “From the first visit we really hit it off. I had just found out that I had multiple sclerosis and I started crying as soon as sh She just sat there […]
The father of a 7-year-old with asthma tells the community nurse that he does not need any teaching on his child’s disease because he found all the information he needed on the Internet. The nurse’s best response is A) “Ok, since Internet information is credible, we won’t need to go over this information.” B) “Internet […]
The home care nurse has been seeing a 50-year-old client postsurgery to care for a wound. Once the wound is healed, the nurse will discharge the client from the home care agency. The nurse knows discharge teaching A) starts 2 weeks prior to discharge. B) is based on the recovery process. C) begins at admission. […]
