Exam 22: Care of Patients with Cancer

A client hospitalized for chemotherapy has a hemoglobin of 6.1 mg/dL.What medication should the nurse prepare to administer?

A client is receiving rituximab (Rituxan)and asks how it works.What response by the nurse is best?

A client has mucositis.What actions by the nurse will improve the client's nutrition? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse works on an oncology unit and delegates personal hygiene to an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP).What action by the UAP requires intervention from the nurse?

A client is receiving interleukins along with chemotherapy.What assessment by the nurse takes priority?

A client with a history of prostate cancer is in the clinic and reports new onset of severe low back pain.What action by the nurse is most important?

A new nurse has been assigned a client who is in the hospital to receive iodine-131 treatment.Which action by the nurse is best?

A nurse is assessing a female client who is taking progestins.What assessment finding requires the nurse to notify the provider immediately?

A nurse reads on a hospitalized client's chart that the client is receiving teletherapy.What action by the nurse is best?

A client tells the oncology nurse about an upcoming vacation to the beach to celebrate completing radiation treatments for cancer.What response by the nurse is most appropriate?

A client has a platelet count of 9800/mm³.What action by the nurse is most appropriate?

A client receiving chemotherapy has a white blood cell count of 1000/mm³.What actions by the nurse are most appropriate? (Select all that apply.)

A client is receiving chemotherapy through a peripheral IV line.What action by the nurse is most important?

A client in the emergency department reports difficulty breathing.The nurse assesses the client's appearance as depicted below: What action by the nurse is the priority?

A client is admitted with superior vena cava syndrome.What action by the nurse is most appropriate?

After receiving the hand-off report,which client should the oncology nurse see first?

A client has received a dose of ondansetron (Zofran)for nausea.What action by the nurse is most important?

A nurse working with clients who experience alopecia knows that which is the best method of helping clients manage the psychosocial impact of this problem?

A client is having a catheter placed in the femoral artery to deliver yttrium-90 beads into a liver tumor.What action by the nurse is most important?

The nurse has taught a client with cancer ways to prevent infection.What statement by the client indicates that more teaching is needed?