Patient safety

        Distractions are everywhere. They may include cellphones, multiple alarms sounding, overhead paging, monitors beeping, and various interruptions that disrupt your clinical practice. Give an example of an ethical or legal issue that may...

Planning for our patients during times of transitions

      Planning for our patients during times of transitions (for example: hospital to home, home to rehabilitation facility) involves collaboration with a number of healthcare professionals. Please address the following questions: · How does your...

The off-label use and dosage of drugs

          Describe strategies to make the off-label use and dosage of drugs safer for children from infancy to adolescence. Include descriptions and names of off-label drugs that require extra care and attention when used in...

Not fully disclosing information to the patient

          In the Asian culture, there is often a belief that terminally ill patients should not be informed about their prognosis. Would you respect the cultural practice and not inform a patient about the prognosis? Is there a way for health...

Cardiovascular System

        Name and write the location of the five traditionally designated auscultatory areas and explain why it is heard there. A pregnant patient (32 weeks’ gestation) is having difficulty with dependent edema and painful varicosities. What can you...

Nursing questions

        Define, Compare and Contrast the following conditions: Fibrocystic breast disease Fibroadenoma Malignant breast tumor