
Medical Surgical
Quiz by HajerAhmed
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Thrombolytic therapy is frequently used in the treatment of suspected stroke. Which of the following significant complication associated with thrombolytic therapy?
Days after abdominal surgery, the patient's wound dehiscence.
The safest nursing intervention when this occurs is to?
The nurse is attending a bridal shower for a friend when another guest , who happens to be a diabetic , starts to tremble and complains of dizziness. The best action of the nurse to take is to
A patient receiving heparin sodium asks the nurse how the drug works. Which of the following points would the nurse include in the explanation ?
Mr.Ahmed is in continues pain from cancer that has metastasized to the bone. Pain medication provides little relief and he refuses to move. The nurse should plan to:
When suctioning secretions from patient's lung, which nursing action would be least appropriate?
Which of the following would be inappropriate to include in a diabetic teaching plan?
The nurse is preparing her plan of care for her patient diagnosed with pneumonia.Which is the most appropriate nursing diagnosis for this patient?
Immediately after cholecystectomy, the nursing action that should assume the highest priority is :
Mr. Braga was ordered Digoxin 0.25mg OD which is poor knowledge regarding this drug
The nurse enters the room of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .The patient's nasal cannula oxygen is running at rate 6L per mnitue , the skin color is pink and the respiration are 9 per minute and shallow . What is the nurse's best initial action.
A patient with chronic heart failure has been placed on a diet restricted to 2000 mg. of sodium per day. The patient demonstrates adequate knowledge if behaviors are evident such as not salting food and avoidance of which food ?
A 20year-old female attending college is found unconscious in her  room.She has a fever and a noticeable rash. She has just been admitted to thehospital. Which of the following tests is most likely to be performed first?
A patient is hemorrhaging from multiple trauma sites. The nurse expects that compensatory mechanisms associated with hypovolemia would cause all of the following symptoms EXCEPT
A nurse is directed to administer a hypotonic intravenous solution. Looking at the following labeled solutions, she should choose