A client hospitalized with a medical diagnosis of adjustment disorder versus personality disorder states, “Nobody cares about the clients.” The nurse’s most effective response would be:

A 23-year-old borderline client is admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit following an impulsive act of self-
mutilation. A few hours after admission, she requests special privileges, and when these are not granted, she
stands up and angrily shouts that the people on the unit do not care, and she storms across the room. The
nurse should respond to this behavior by

A mother who is breast-feeding her newborn asks the RN, “How can I express milk from my breasts manually?”
The RN tells her that the correct method for manual milk expression includes using the thumb and the index
finger to:

The nurse instructs a pregnant client (G2P1) to rest in a side-lying position and avoid lying flat on her back. The nurse explains that this is to avoid “vena caval syndrome,” a condition which:

A client is being discharged from the hospital tomorrow following a colon resection with a left colostomy. The
nurse knows that the client understands the discharge teaching about care of her colostomy when she says: