31. Preparing a patient for a diagnostic test, and telling the patient what to expect during and after the test, is considered:

34.  The general rule is that the initial care plan for a patient is:

42.  The nurse giving a patient a back massage is performing an intervention considered to be:

32.  The nurse documents interventions periodically during the shift in nurses’ notes primarily to:

28.  The nurse is aware that one of the time flexible tasks to be accomplished would be:

40.  During morning care in a skilled nursing facility, the student nurse notices that the patient who is at risk for impaired skin integrity has developed a small open area on his sacrum. To best address this situation, what would be the best intervention?:

18.  The nurse clarifies that nursing orders are also called:

48.  A difference in the assessment of a patient entering a long-term care facility versus that of a hospital patient is that the long-term care resident is assessed for:

5. The major goal of the admission interview (usually performed by the RN) is to:

24.  The patient’s temperature is 100.4. The skin on the forehead is warm and dry. The patient has been incontinent, and he bed is wet. He complains of being very tired. Which nursing intervention would have the highest priority?