Priority Decision: A terminally ill patient is unresponsive and has cold, clammy skin with mottling on the extremities. The patient’s husband and two grown children are arguing at the bedside about where the patient’s funeral should be held. What should the nurse do first?

Priority Decision: A terminally ill patient is unresponsive and has cold, clammy skin with mottling on the extremities. The patient’s husband and two grown children are arguing at the bedside about where the patient’s funeral should be held. What should the nurse do first?

Joan is apprehensive about undergoing bronchoscopy. You respond by saying

Denise is recovering from an open cholecystectomy. You know that because of the location of the surgery, she has an increased chance of postoperative

A patient is diagnosed with Bell's palsy and has signs of unilateral facial paralysis and is unable to close his right eye. What eye care is required?

Your postoperative patient develops a cellulitis in her leg. Your nursing treatments would include