Priority Decision: Following auscultation of the abdomen, what should the nurse's next action be?

Priority Decision: Following auscultation of the abdomen, what should the nurse's next action be?

Priority Decision: When caring for a patient following a glossectomy with dissection of the floor of the mouth and a radical neck dissection for cancer of the tongue what is the nurse's primary concern?

The nurse evaluates that management of the patient with upper GI bleeding is effective when assessment and laboratory findings reveal which result?

Priority Decision: A patient with ulcerative colitis has a total proctocolectomy with formation of a terminal ileum stom What is the most important nursing intervention for this patient postoperatively?

The patient asks the nurse to explain what the physician meant when he said the patient had an anorectal abscess. Which description should the nurse use to explain this to the patient?