The Patient Has an Order to Be Off the Floor

question 22

Multiple Choice

The patient has an order to be off the floor for 15 minutes every 2 hours to smoke a cigarette.The patient has just returned from his "cigarette break." The nurse is about to take the patient's radial pulse and should:

• A)wait about 15 minutes before taking his pulse.
• B)use her thumb to detect the pulse and get an accurate count.
• C)press hard to detect the pulse and get an accurate count.
• D)take his pulse for 15 seconds and multiply by 4.

---

Definitions:

Current Liabilities

Short-term financial obligations that are due within one year or within a normal operating cycle.

Ratios

A quantitative relationship between two numbers, showing how many times one value contains or is contained within the other.

Answering Machine

A device that automatically answers telephone calls and records messages from callers.