Hospice care can be provided in which of the following settings? (Select all that apply.)
a. Home
b. Free-standing hospice facilities
c. Extended care facilities
d. Acute care facilities
Question 2The nurse is caring for four patients during a shift. Which of the following patients is at greatest risk for developing a pressure ulcer?
a. The patient who is bedridden, but who turns himself randomly
b. The patient whose Braden Scale score is 8
c. The patient who can ambulate to the bathroom independently
d. The patient whose Braden Scale score is 18
Question 3For a patient in the final stages of dying, a nurse expects to:
a. keep the patient's room cool.
b. avoid catheterizing the patient.
c. elevate the head of the bed as tolerated.
d. encourage the patient to eat and drink more.
Question 4The home care nurse is getting ready to help the patient prepare a tub bath. What should the nurse be sure to do?
Question 5The patient was a practicing Hindu when he died. Knowing this, the nurse realizes that:
a. the body should be covered with a cotton sheet.
b. anointing of the sick is performed even after death.
c. family members often prefer to wash the body after death.
d. the body should be buried within 24 hours.
Question 6The patient has morphine sulfate ordered for pain every 4 hours prn. The patient complains of severe pain and usually requests more morphine an hour before it is due. The nurse should:
(Select all that apply.)
a. Request a placebo order from the physician.
b. Offer the patient medication around the clock instead of prn.
c. Offer the patient massage between medication doses.
d. Offer the patient a nonopioid medication between morphine doses if ordered.
Question 7The nurse is turning a patient when she notices an area with nonblanchable redness over the patient's coccyx. The patient complains of pain at the site, and the site does feel cooler than the areas immediately around the site.
The nurse recognizes that this patient has developed:
a. a stage I pressure.
b. a stage II pressure.
c. an unstageable pressure.
d. deep tissue injury.
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