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- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 10. transmitted by contact with an object or a person
- 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. 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. 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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