The Home Health Nurse Encourages the Family of a Patient

question 19

Multiple Choice

The home health nurse encourages the family of a patient with a SCI to use the assisted cough technique,which requires the caregiver to: (Select all that apply.)

• A) Assist the patient to inhale a bronchodilator spray and then cough.
• B) Forcefully press on patient's back below the rib cage while the patient is in the prone position.
• C) Assist the patient to lean forward, breathe deep, and then cough.
• D) Apply pressure to diaphragm as the patient coughs.
• E) Slap the patient on upper back while the patient is in the prone position.

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Definitions:

Homologous Chromosomes

Chromosomes that are similar in morphology and genetic constitution. In humans there are 23 pairs of homologous chromosomes; one member of each pair is inherited from the mother, and the other from the father.

Synapsis

The process of physical association of homologous chromosomes during prophase I of meiosis.

Anaphase I

A stage of meiosis where homologous chromosomes are separated and move to opposite poles of the cell.

Sister Chromatids

Identical copies of a chromosome, connected by a centromere, that are created during DNA replication and separated during cell division.