What are Nurse Practice Acts?

An older adult client has been diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and has begun treatment with Donepezil (Aricept). When providing health education to the client and the client’s spouse, the nurse should identify what goal of treatment?

A nurse is providing an outpatient nutrition class for a group of clients. During the class, the nurse informs the group of clients that there are six classes of nutrients, and three supply the body with energy. What are the three sources of energy?

While at the nurse’s station, a nurse hears a couple of nursing assistants talking about a client they did not like. When they asked the nurse what they thought, the nurse politely refused to join the conversation. What value was the nurse demonstrating?

What condition is the client who has nausea, vomiting and diarrhea at greatest risk for?

A nurse is admitting a client has completed chemo for colorectal cancer. The client is on neutropenia precautions and started on Filgrastim (Neupogen) to prevent infection. Which laboratory finding indicates therapy is working?

The clinic nurse caring for a client with Parkinson disease notes that the client has been taking Levodopa and Carbidopa (Sinemet) for 7 years. For what common side effect would the nurse assess this client?

A 26-year-old client is on dialysis because of chronic renal failure. The client plans to receive a kidney transplant. The provider told the client today that because of other health problems, the client is not a candidate for a transplant. Now the client tells the nurse, “I want to stop receiving dialysis. I’d rather not live than be on this treatment for the rest of my life.” Which initial action by the nurse is most therapeutic?

A client is being admitted to the neurologic ICU following an acute head injury that has resulted in cerebral edema. The nurse observes the client have a tonic-clonic seizure lasting 10 seconds. After administering intravenous Lorazepam (Ativan) to abort the seizure, which of the following should the nurse assess first?

Order: 1000 ml of D5 1/2 NS is ordered to run for 12 hours with an IV set delivering 15 gtt/ml.  What is the rate of flow in gtt/min (Round to the nearest whole number)?