Question

While the nurse is walking down the hall with a client, the client begins to feel lightheaded and starts to fall. The most appropriate action for the nurse is to take is

a) lean the client up against the wall

b) call for help while holding the client upright

c) grasp the client around the waist and hold them up

d) gently ease the client to the floor

2) the nurse is caring for a hospitalized client following pancreatic surgery. The nurse observes that the client has non elastic skin turgor, dry mucous membranes, and a weak apical pulse rate of 120. The nurse determines that the client is most likely experiencing

a) hypervolemia

b) hyperlemia

c) hyponatremia

d) hypovolemia

Answer 1

When an individual is suffering from a lightheadedness or from faint then their is risk that it can reoccurr in the individual . So the best method to act over in these situations is to make the person lay down on the ground for about at least 10 minutes which will help to restore the blood supply to the main parts of the body that is the brain of the individual .

So settling the patient to floor is the correct answer option d is the correct answer

Option a is wrong as leaning against wall induce risk for fall

Option b is wrong as holding the patient upright will not help to increase blood supply to brain

Option c is wrong as it will not help to restore the blood supply to brain