Exam 80: Management of Clients Requiring Transplantation

Important health promotion measures for the client who has received an organ transplant include regularly-scheduled (select all that apply)

The nurse working in an emergency department assesses that the client near death who would be the best candidate for organ donation is the client with

The nurse working with clients who need organ transplant includes in the teaching plan that the primary responsibility of the transplantation team is to

The nurse warns a client who has been found to be an acceptable candidate for a kidney transplant, that now the greatest impediment to renal transplantation is

The nurse explains that the law prohibiting the buying and selling of organs is the

A client who had a liver transplant 4 days ago has developed a fever and decreased biliary tube drainage. The nurse anticipates an order for the client to have a

To identify manifestations of rejection following kidney transplant, the nurse would instruct a client going home to monitor for

A client who had a kidney transplant develops decreased urine output, increased serum creatinine level, and a slight elevation in temperature. The nurse anticipates providing which intervention?

A nurse in the intensive care unit is caring for a post-transplantation client. This client's first set of vital signs were temperature 94.4° F, pulse 110 beats/min, respirations ventilated at 20 breaths/min, blood pressure 108/64 mm Hg. After 2 hours, the vital signs are temperature 98.4° F, pulse 108 beats/min, respirations ventilated at 20 breaths/min, blood pressure 88/58 mm Hg. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate at this time?

The nurse teaching a post-transplant client realizes that goals have been met when the client verbalizes understanding that the most common reason for rehospitalization in the post-transplant client is

The nurse working with a client awaiting organ transplant would focus on dispelling the false belief that

The nurse conducting community education on transplant options would teach that the client who would benefit most from kidney-pancreas transplantation is the client with

A nurse working as part of a transplantation team is conducting a group education session. A client waiting for a heart transplant asks why he cannot stay in his rural home to wait. He knows someone who had a kidney transplant and stayed in the same local area waiting for his transplant. The best response by the nurse would be

The nurse working with a post-transplant client tells the client that he should refrain from returning to his distant original home for up to

The nurse working with the family of a potential organ donor informs them that the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) includes in its definition of death irreversible cessation of activity in the entire brain

The nurse counseling a potential organ transplant candidate and his family explains that the evaluation process generally takes about

The most important topic related to health promotion the nurse should teach a client before being discharged after an organ transplant is

The nurse on a team maintaining an organ donor before organ harvest makes the following assessment findings. Which finding must be addressed first?

A client is confused about Medicare coverage post-transplant. The nurse clarifies that in 1996 Medicare extended insurance coverage for

Basing the assessment on knowledge of cultural customs and beliefs, the nurse would identify the client who would have the greatest conflict with heart transplantation as being from the faith of