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Which of the following nursing orders has the highest priority for a child with epiglottitis?

A 14-year-old teenager is hospitalized for anorexia nervos She is admitted to the adolescent mental health unit and placed on a behavior modification program. Nursing interventions for the teenager will most likely include:

A 3-year-old female client is brought into the pediatricclinic because she limps. She has not been to the clinic since she was 9 months old. The nurse practitioner describes the limp as a -Trendelenburg gait.I This gait is characteristic of:

Which stage of labor lasts from delivery of the baby to delivery of the placenta?

A child is admitted with severe headache, fever, vomiting, photophobia, drowsiness, and stiff neck associated with viral meningitis. She will be more comfortable if the nurse:

Parents of a child with rheumatic fever express concern that she will always be arthritic. The nurse discusses their concerns and tells them the joint pain usually:

A 4-year-old boy is brought to the emergency room with bruises on his head, face, arms, and legs. His mother states that he felldown some steps. The nurse suspects that he may have been physically abused. In accordance with the law, the nurse must:

Three hours postoperatively, a 27-year-old client complains of right leg pain after knee reduction. The first action by the nurse will be to:

Two hours after the second injection of haloperidol, a client complains to the nurse of a stiff neck and inability to sit still. He is experiencing symptoms consistent with:

One of the most reliable assessment tools for adequacy of fluid resuscitation in burned children is:

Goal setting for a client with Meniere's disease should include which of the following?

The nurse is developing a plan of care for a client with an electrolyte imbalance and identifies a nursing diagnosis of decreased physical mobility. Which alteration is most likely the etiology?

A client admitted with a diagnosis of possible myocardial infarction is admitted to the unit from the emergency room.The nurse's first action when admitting the client will be to:

A client has been taking lithium 300 mg po bid for the past two weeks. This morning her lithium level was 1 mEq/L. The nurse should:

The mother of a child taking phenytoin will need to plan appropriate mouth care and gingival stimulation. When tooth-brushing is contraindicated, the next most effective cleansing and gingival stimulation technique would be:

The nurse knows that children are more susceptible to respiratory tract infections owing to physiological differences. These childhood differences, when compared to an adult, include:

The nurse is collecting a nutritional history on a 28- year-old female client with iron-deficiency anemia and learns that the client likes to eat white chalk. When implementing a teaching plan, the nurse should explain that this practice:

The nurse will be alert to the most potentially life threatening side effect associated with the administration of monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor. This is:

The physician decides to prescribe both a short-acting insulin and an intermediate-acting insulin for a newly diagnosed 8-year-old diabetic client. An example of a short-acting insulin is:

Which of the following findings would necessitate discontinuing an IV potassium infusion in an adult with ketoacidosis?