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A nurse is caring for a client who has a body mass index (BMI) of 26. The nurse should place the client in which BMI category?

A nurse in a clinic is interviewing a client who will undergo diagnostic testing. The nurse should ask about a client's potential allergies during which phase of the nursing process?

When assessing the elbow, a nurse asks a client to hold the arm out and turn the palm down. When the client performs this maneuver, the nurse is testing what?

A nurse is caring for a client and observes that the client's urine is cloudy, has an unpleasant odor, and contains hematuria. The nurse should recognize that these findings are associated with which urinary problem?

A nurse is completing a client's history and physical examination. Which information should the nurse consider subjective data?

 A nurse in an emergency department (ED) is admitting a client.

Vital Signs 

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Temperature 38.6° C (101.5° F)

Heart rate 106/min

Respiratory rate 26/min

Blood pressure 110/54 mm Hg

Oxygen saturation 94% on room air

Nurses Notes 

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Client presents to ED with report of shortness of breath for 3 days, with headache, chills, fever, sore throat, and cough.

Oriented to person, place, and time. Appears lethargic, difficulty answering questioning due to shortness of breath. Follows simple commands, moves all extremities with weakness.

Client's face is flushed, sinus tachycardia, rate of 106/min, $152 heart sounds heard on auscultation. Pulses palpable.

Breath sounds with crackles to right lower lobe, tachypnea, rate of 26/min. Tactile fremitus and decreased lung expansion noted upon assessment. Frequent productive cough with thick yellow sputum. Client denies hemoptysis. Unable to lie down, states they are "more comfortable sitting up."

Bowel sounds active x 4 quadrants. Denies diarrhea, last bowel movement yesterday. States "no appetite since I've been sick."

Reports decreased urination in the past day.

Client reports they have not had a pneumococcal vaccine. States, "1 Just hate needles."

Diagnostic Results

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Chest x-ray.

Areas of increased density and white infiltrates to lower right lobe.

Select 3 objective findings in the client's medical record that may be indicative of pneumonia.

A nurse is caring for a postoperative client. The nurse should base the client's pain management interventions primarily on which methods of determining the intensity of the client's pain?

The nurse is assigned to care for a client with complete right-sided hemiparesis [weakness] from a stroke (brain attack).

admitting diagnosis

cerebrovascular attack

Right-sided hemiparesis

Which characteristics are associated with this condition? Select 2 that apply.

Which shape should the nurse expect a client's chest to be when assessing a client who has COPD?

A nurse is teaching about the risk factors of developing a stroke with a group of older adult clients. Which nonmodifiable risk factors should the nurse include in the teaching?

Which lung sounds are expected? (Select all that apply.)