HAAD HAAD-RN - HAAD Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses
A construction worker was brought to the emergency department and admitted with the diagnosis of heat stroke due to strenuous physical activity during hot weather conditions. Which action should the nurse take?
Salem has Alzheimer’s disease. He is agitated and repeatedly asks to go home. The most appropriate nursing intervention for him is to:
A patient with deep partial-thickness and full-thickness burns of the face and chest is admitted to the emergency department. The nurse must be particularly alert for:
A patient with severe, protracted vomiting will often have what electrolyte abnormality?
Which of the following tasks requires specialized education and should be performed by the nurse only after the training has been completed?
Nursing management of a patient with pulmonary embolism would focus on which of the following actions?
While assessing an 84-year-old post-operative patient, the nurse observes that the patient suddenly becomes very anxious, appears cyanotic and has severe dyspnea. The nurse recognizes these symptoms to be consistent with:
The best time for the nurse to teach an anxious patient about the patient controlled analgesic (PCA) pump would be during which of the following stages of patient care?
A nurse is not familiar with a particular solution ordered to irrigate a patient's wound. The appropriate action would be to:
One factor affecting the pharmokinetics of older patients' drug absorption is:
