The Nurse Is Educating a Client with Heart Failure on Monitoring

question 14

Multiple Choice

The nurse is educating a client with heart failure on monitoring for signs and symptoms.The nurse knows the teaching has been effective when the client responds:

• A)"I should weigh myself every day."
• B)"As long as I'm not short of breath, I don't have heart failure."
• C)"My heart rate and blood pressure should high."
• D)"If I sleep on three pillows, I will be fine."

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Definitions:

Actual Performance

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Process Losses

The inefficiencies that result in diminished productivity or effectiveness within a group’s collaborative efforts.

Punctuated Equilibrium Model

A model of group development that describes how groups with deadlines are affected by their first meetings and crucial midpoint transitions.

First Meetings

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