Nursing assistants

Mr. Park, a patient in a nursing home, has been receiving clarithromycin (Biaxin) for an upper respiratory infection for 9 days. The nurse assistant reports that he has been incontinent of feces for the past 2 days. Analyze whether this matter should be investigated. 

A nurse assistant asks you what is the purpose of preoperative drugs and why patients cannot get out of bed after receiving a preoperative drug. Describe how you would explain this to the nurse assistant. 

Administration of tiiese drugs may result in varying degrees of drowsiness. To prevent accidental falls and other injuries, die nurse assists the patient who is allowed out of bed with ambulatory activities. If extreme drowsiness is noted, the nurse instructs the patient to remain in bed and provides a call light for assistance... 

During initial therapy, headache and postural hypotension may occur, and the nurse must notify the primary health care provider because a dose change may be necessary. The nurse assists patients having episodes of postural hypotension with all ambulatory activities. The nurse instructs those with episodes of postural hypotension to take the drug in a sitting or supine position and to remain in that position until symptoms disappear. Hypotension maybe accompanied by paradoxical... 

Some patients may experience dizziness and lightheadedness, especially during early therapy. If these effects should occur, the nurse assists the patient with all ambulatory activities and instructs die patient to ask for help when getting out of bed or ambulating. 

Teaching and developing courses disaster health services, staff health, and mental health, CPR/first aid, family caregiving, nurse assistant training, and babysitting, preventing disease transmission... 

Assistant Clinical Professor University of Rochester School of Nursing Assistant Clinical Professor, Adjunct Faculty Division of Medical Humanities University of Rochester School of Medicine... 

The book you are about to read offers a comprehensive analysis of a broad range of disasters possible in today s world—both those wreaked by humans as well as by nature. This text is the next generation of information needed by nurses to be informed about and responsive to the needs of our citizens in a disaster. Katrina was a wake-up event. The roles that nurses and nurse assistants played in that disaster were selfless and inspiring. Katrina only served to undergird our awareness that we must be vigilant and prepared ... 

Type 2 diabetes is common in the elderly. Most nursing home and assisted living facilities are staffed by Certified Nursing Assistants. These staff need to be trained in the proper care of patients with diabetes. Training on the... 

On the cardiac ward, there are 7 nursing assistants. Basil has 8 patients Hobbes has 5 patients McGuire has 9 patients Mattie has 10 patients Garcia has 10 patients James has 14 patients and Lydia has 7 patients. What is the average number of patients per nursing assistant ... 

Choice c is correct. First, add the number of patients to find the total 63. Then divide the number of patients by the number of nursing assistants 63 divided by 7 is 9. 

The intervention is executing the plan. For example, the nurse will assist the patient to the chair the first time and might delegate the task to a nursing assistant thereafter if the patient does not have any problems. 

The child diagnosed with gastroenteritis is scheduled for an endoscopic examination of the stomach and duodenum. Which intervention is priority for the nurse assisting with the procedure ... 

The client diagnosed with anorexia nervosa is admitted to the medical department for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) because of her emaciated condition. Which task can be delegated to the unlicensed nursing assistant ... 

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