A nurse is planning care for a client who has a full-thickness burns on the lower extremities.

Which of the following interventions should the nurse include?

a) Limit visitation time for client's children to 40 minutes per day

b) clean the equipment in the client's room once per week

c) provide a diet of fresh fruits and vegetable for the client

d) apply new gloves when alternating between wound care sites - answer=d) apply new

gloves when alternating between wound care sites

A nurse is caring for a client who has cancer. The client tells the nurse, "I would prefer to try

vitamins and minerals instead of chemotherapy" which of the following responses should the

nurse make?

a) I have never heard of any holistic treatment that is effective

b) you should ask your provider about your plan

c) the best way to treat your cancer is chemotherapy

d) tell me what you know about chemotherapy - answer=d) tell me what you know about

chemotherapy

A nurse is planning to teach a client whose provider has prescribed a low purine diet. The

nurse should plan to instruct the client that he can include which of the following Foods in his

diet (select all that apply)

a) Sardines

b) Nuts

c) Apricots

d) liver

e) scallops - answer=b) Nuts

c) Apricots

Nurse is caring for a client following a total knee arthroplasty. The client reports a pain level

of 6 on a paint scale of 0 to 10. Which of the following interventions should the nurse take?

a) Place pillowsl under the clients knee

b) gently massage the area around the clients incision

c) apply an ice pack to the clients knee

d) perform range of motion exercises to the clients knee - answer=c) apply an ice pack to the

clients knee

A nurse is caring for a client who has lower extremity fracture and a prescription for crutches.

Which of the following client statements indicates that the client is adapting to their role

change? a) I will need to have my partner take over shopping for groceries and cooking the

meals for us

b) Its going to be difficult to tell my parents I can't take them to their appointments anymore

c) I feel bad that I have to ask my partner to keep the house clean

d) These crutches will make it impossible to care for my child - answer=a) I will need to have

my partner take over shopping for groceries and cooking the meals for us

A nurse is assessing a client who is preoperative and reports an allergy to bananas. The nurse

should recognize that the client is at risk for an allergic cross-reactivity to which of the

following substances?

a) adhesive tap