The prefix meaning ten is ________.

While receiving a shift report on a patient, the nurse is informed that the patient has urinary incontinence. Upon assessment, which finding will the nurse expect?

A) An indwelling Foley catheter
B) Reddened irritated skin on buttocks
C) Tiny blood clots in the patient's urine
D) Foul-smelling discharge indicative of infection

The nurse is caring for a school-age child with a tinea capitis (ringworm) infection. What should the nurse expect the therapeutic management of this child to include?

A) Administering oral griseofulvin
B) Administering topical or oral antibiotics
C) Applying topical sulfonamides
D) Applying Burow solution compresses to affected area

The patient is on a ventilator and has a heartbeat,but is brain dead.What should the nurse do?

A) Provide a private area to discuss organ donation.
B) Explain that as long as the heart is beating, the patient is alive.
C) Inform the family that the organs will be harvested when he is off the ventilator.
D) Stress the importance of leaving the patient on the ventilator to harvest the corneas.

The ___________ variable acts between the independent and dependent variable, whereas the ___________ variable shows how relationships change with different variables.

The patient concentrates on the mind-numbing details of the spouse's funeral to delay dealing with the overwhelming pain of the loss.Which stage of grief is currently being experienced by the patient?

A) Anger
B) Denial
C) Bargaining
D) Acceptance
E) Depression