The following orders are received for a patient who is unconscious with a head injury caused by an automobile accident. Which one should the nurse question?

A patient with a paraplegia resulting from a T5 spinal cord injury has a chronic constipation. When the nurse develops a plan of care for this problem, which nursing action will be most appropriate?

When the nurse administers carbidopa/levodopa (Sinemet), the nurse would expect which effect?

The physician has ordered a creatinine clearance measurement for the patient with impaired renal function. The nurse is aware that the specimens that will require collection for the calculation of the patient’s creatinine clearance include:

A patient with acute renal failure is receiving IV fluids. Which finding would alert the nurse to the need to adjust the fluid infusion rate?

Order: cefepime 200mg in 50mlNS to infuse over 30 minutes. What will be the pump setting?

Two days after surgery for an ileal conduit, the patient will not look at the stoma or participate in care. The patient insists that no one but the ostomy nurse specialist care for the stoma. The nurse identifies an appropriate outcome for this patient as:

The nurse is assisting the patient who is recovering from an acute stroke and has left-side hemiplegia to transfer from the bed to the wheelchair. Which action by the nurse is appropriate?

                      The nurse discusses the results of a bone density test with a patient. The patient’s score is a –1.9. Which patient statement indicates a correct understanding of the results?

In providing In providing care to a patient diagnosed with osteoporosis, the nurse correlates which pathophysiological actions to this disease process?