A client hospitalized with sickle cell crisis frequently asks for opioid pain medication often shortly after receiving a dose. The nurses on the unit believe that the client is drug seeking. When the client requests pain medication, what action by the nurse is best?

Several clients call the outpatient clinic and ask to make an appointment.  Which client should the nurse schedule to be seen first?

A nurse is going to care for a client with hemophilia, which of the following assessment data would require immediate notification to the health care provider?  Mark as Immediate Notification or Non Emergent.

A client with sickle cell crisis is admitted to the hospital.  During the admission interview, which of the following questions would the nurse ask in relation to a sickle cell crisis?  For each question, choose either “ask” or “not ask” in relationship to a sickling crisis interview. 

A client has recently been diagnosed with leukemia.  Which of the following symptoms would a health care provider expect to see given this diagnosis?

Which instruction will the nurse include in the discharge teaching plan of a client who was recently diagnosed with thrombocytopenia?

A client presents to the clinic for a biopsy of an enlarged cervical chain lymph node, which he has had for 2 months.  The lymph node is painless.  The physician suspects Hodgkin’s disease.  Which result would confirm the diagnosis?

In addressing a nursing diagnosis of “Risk for Infection” for a client with leukemia, nursing measures should include all of the following except:

Concerts, musicals, and comedy shows are examples of

How did the Black Death spread through Europe?