Ms. Y is a migrant worker who has been in the United
States for 8 months. She has been doing odd jobs, one of which has
been cleaning chicken houses. While she is waiting for official
citizenship papers, she has been unable to obtain permanent
housing. She went to the health department when she could not stop
coughing. She has lost 10 pounds in the last month and just does
not feel well. While at the Health Department they diagnosed Ms. Y
with Tuberculosis.
The Nurse Practitioner has given Ms. Y two
prescriptions for medication. One medication is Isoniazid and the
other is Rifampin. She asks the LPN to educate the client on both
of these medications.
1. What would be included in the teaching for
Isoniazid?
2. What would be included in the teaching for
Rifampin?
3. The NP also asks the LPN to explain Direct
Observation Therapy to the client. What will you explain that DOT
is?
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Metabolic syndrome is defined as a cluster of some of the following risk factors. Select each of these risk factors. Group of answer choices Low serum LDL cholesterol levels Excess abdominal fat Hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) Hypertension (high blood pressure) Low serum HDL cholesterol levels Hypertriglyceridemia (high blood triglycerides) Hyperkalemia (high blood calcium)
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A patient scheduled for abdominal assessment complains of pain in the right iliac fossa. How would you carry out his abdominal assessment?
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Can you please share more information about how ACTH deficiency could affect a child with Diabetes insipidus in a child with a pituitary tumor?
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Consider the Global Goals from the perspective of a community healthcare worker. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Answer the following questions:
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Social issue/problem and historical background of the health care organization policy OR Hospital policy. 200 words.
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A. Differentiate between focused and complete physical assessment. B. John Bosco a very good swimmer accidentally hits his head to the floor of a swimming pool during a swimming competition after diving from a 30 feet height. He was picked with a head injury in a state of unconsciousness. Describe the scale that you will used in assessing his level of unconsciousness. (7 MARKS
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| specific ways you can focus the nursing care of a child with a cardiac disorder to improve oxygenation, promote nutrition, prevent infection, provide post-op care, assist with coping, and provide education. |
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Four (4) technological developments made during the last twenty 25 years that influenced the workplace culture/medical field of today
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As a nurse, ensuring proper identification of your clients is a top priority safety issue. QSEN and the National Patient Safety goals put client identification high on the list of safety precautions. Using appropriate strategies, such as evidence-based tools and checklists, can add to the value of measurement of certain client conditions that will lead to quality care. Nurses play a role as a change agent when necessary, to improve nursing outcomes and increase job satisfaction.
Post an example of RN experience(s) with safety issues, using checklists, and being a change agent. This can either be from a healthcare perspective, or in everyday life.
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Please go to QSEN website and pick one of the six competencies. Pick one of the Listed KSA-knowledge, Skill and Attitudes and briefly describe how this KSA applies to you as a prelicensure nursing student
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As a nurse, ensuring proper identification of your clients is a top priority safety issue. QSEN and the National Patient Safety goals put client identification high on the list of safety precautions. Using appropriate strategies, such as evidence-based tools and checklists, can add to the value of measurement of certain client conditions that will lead to quality care. Nurses play a role as a change agent when necessary, to improve nursing outcomes and increase job satisfaction.
Post an example of RN experience(s) with safety issues, using checklists, and being a change agent. This can either be from a healthcare perspective, or in everyday life.
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Summarize the case scenario in short form.
Amira is driving on a highway with her male partner, Charlie,
and their three-year-old daughter, Samantha. They are hit by a
drunk driver in a multi-vehicle accident. Ambulances quickly arrive
on the scene, and Amira and Charlie, both seriously injured, are
rushed to a nearby hospital in separate ambulances. Samantha, with
minor injuries, is taken in another ambulance to a children’s
hospital 10 KM away.
In the hospital emergency room Charlie’s vital signs are absent.
The trauma team tries to resuscitate him, but their efforts fail.
Amira, awake in the same hospital’s trauma room, is not aware of
her partner’s death. She asks about her family. At the same time,
her vital signs deteriorate because she has lost a lot of blood.
Her colour is pale and her lips are cyanotic. As a result of the
crash, one lung has collapsed, her breathing is labored, and she
also has sustained kidney damage. She urgently needs to have
surgery. Whether she will survive the surgery is uncertain. If she
does survive, she will be in an induced coma for a week to allow
her body to heal. Her physical status is unstable, and the nurses
and their colleagues fear that any further stress might seriously
impair her capacity to survive. She loses consciousness briefly and
then suddenly awakes and asks, “How is Charlie?” and “Where is
Samantha?” The nurses tell her that Samantha is well and at another
hospital. No one on the team wants to answer her Amira’s question
about Charlie. They are aware of the risks of telling her now. But
they are also afraid that she might die in the operating room
without knowing the truth about Charlie.
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Consider two types of consequentialist moral reasoning: utilitarianism and moral egoism. Consider also two types of non-consequentialist moral reasoning: virtue ethics and deontology.
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