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NURS 305 exam 1
Fundamentals Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Explain to the young woman who has come to your family planning clinic how taking her temperature can help her predict her fertility? | A woman's body temp varies with her menstrual cycle and pregnancy. Body temp is lower when progesterone levels are low and high when levels are high. |
| You are the RN giving assignments to your CNA's at a long term care facility. You are expecting a new client from a rehab unit in a short time. When and at what intervals would you direct the CNA to take the new client's vital signs? | If delegating vital signs to CNA I would tell them to take them as soon as the client arrives in my care then every 4-8 hours unless values vary from baseline |
| How would you explain what you mean by vital signs and why you need them taken? | Vital signs are the assessment of vital or critical physiological functions. the vital signs are temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure. These values indicate a persons state of health and functioning of body systems and organs |
| If there is an unusually large blood loss. What effect would you expect to have on the patients VS? Would this info alter how often you would take the VS? Why? | It will reduce vascular volume so BP will fall, pulse will increase, respiration's will increase. I would take his vitals as soon as he gets into my care and take them every 5-15 minutes because the vitals are not normal and they vary from his baseline |
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