Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations B Quiz 8

The nurse witness a vehicle hit a pedestrian at fairly low speed on a small street. The nurse checks the victim and found it dazed and tries to get up. The leg appears fracture. The nurse would initially plan to:

A nurse is planning to teach a client with a left arm cast about measures to keep the left shoulder form becoming stiff and frozen. Which of the following suggestion would the nurse include in the teaching plan?

The client lower leg is casted made of fiberglass materials. The client asks the nurse when he can be able to walk in casts. The nurse replies that the client will be able to bear weight on the cast:

The nurse is providing a discharge instruction regarding cast care at home to a client with a leg cast. The nurse would evaluate that the client needs further instruction If the client makes which of the following statements?

The surgeon scheduled the client with hip fracture to be on Buck’s extension traction before the surgery. The client asks the nurse why there is a need for the application of this traction. The nurse’s response is based on the understanding that Buck’s extension traction primarily:

The client with skeletal leg traction with an overbed frame is instructed to limit his movement from side to side. Which action by the nurse would be most useful in trying to provide good skin care to the client?

The nurse is monitoring the pin sites of a client in skeletal traction. The nurse would be least concerned with which of the following findings?

A male client is immobilized in skeletal leg traction for almost 20 days. No visitor for almost a week and no books to read and no one to talk to. The client complains of being bored and restless. The nurse would be formulating which of the following nursing diagnoses for this client?

The right leg of the client is applied with Buck’s extension traction. The nurse is assigned to care for the client. The nurse would plan which of the following interventions to prevent complications of the device?

The nurse is caring for a client who had skeletal traction applied to the left leg. The client asks the nurse how long he will stay in that condition. While talking to the nurse, the client complains of severe left leg pain. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?