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Title: A nurse is assessing a client who has a fever, has an infection of a flank incision, and is in ...
Post by: KarineShine on Jan 18, 2018
A nurse is assessing a client who has a fever, has an infection of a flank incision, and is in severe pain. What type of pulse rate would be likely?
 
  A) Bradycardia
  B) Tachycardia
  C) Dysrhythmia
  D) Bigeminal


Title: A nurse is assessing a client who has a fever, has an infection of a flank incision, and is in ...
Post by: dalj;a on Jan 18, 2018
Ans: B
The pulse rate increases (tachycardia) and decreases in response to a variety of physiologic mechanisms. Tachycardia is a response to an elevated body temperature and pain.