Exam 1 review

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  1. 3. A nurse is assessing postoperative pain in a 6-year-old child who has limited English proficiency and can point to pictures more easily than using numbers. Which pain scale is most appropriate to determine pain intensity?
  2. 6. A nurse is teaching a client who has vulvovaginal candidiasis about using a prescribed clotrimazole medication in cream form. The nurse should identify that this medication is administered by which route?
  3. 8. A nurse is educating new staff about preventing hospital-acquired infections. The nurse explains that Legionella pneumophila can multiply in the water of an under-maintained hospital ice machine and later infect clients via inhalation of aerosolized droplets. In the chain of infection, the ice machine is best described as which component?
  4. 10. transmitted by contact with an object or a person
  5. 11. A nurse prepares to insert an indwelling urinary catheter. After performing hand hygiene and donning sterile gloves, the nurse opens the catheter kit and places a sterile drape on the over-bed table. The nurse then arranges sterile supplies on the drape and avoids touching the 1-inch border. What is the term for the area the nurse has prepared?
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  1. 1. A charge nurse reviews an incident in which an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) left a confused, high fall–risk client unattended on the bedside commode. The client fell and sustained a wrist fracture. Which legal term best describes the UAP’s failure to meet the expected standard of care?
  2. 2. A nurse is preparing to admit a client with a suspected highly communicable respiratory illness. Which intervention represents the primary strategy in the healthcare setting to prevent transmission by creating a physical barrier between the source and others?
  3. 4. A client arrives in the ED with acute chest pain and is prescribed nitroglycerin for rapid relief. To ensure the medication bypasses first-pass metabolism and provides a fast onset of action, the nurse should administer the medication by which route?
  4. 5. A nurse is preparing to administer 2 mL of iron dextran IM to an adult client. Which action should the nurse take to minimize tissue irritation and prevent medication from leaking into subcutaneous tissue?
  5. 7. A nurse is preparing to administer a 0.5 mL tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap) vaccine to an adult client. Which intramuscular site is most appropriate?
  6. 9. A client with asthma has difficulty coordinating actuation and inhalation when using a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with inhaled corticosteroid. Which device should the nurse recommend to improve medication delivery