[单项选择]The nurse is assessing a pregnant woman in the clinic. In the course of the assessment, the nurse learns that this woman smokes one pack of cigarettes per day. Which of the following is the first step the nurse should take to help the woman stop smoking（）
A. Assess the client’s readiness to stop.
B. Suggest that the client reduce the daily number of cigarettes smoked by one-half.
C. Provide the client with the telephone number of a formal smoking-cessation program.
D. Help the client develop a plan to stop.

[单项选择]The nurse is assessing a pregnant woman in the clinic. In the course of the assessment, the nurse learns that this woman smokes one pack of cigarettes per day. The first step the nurse should take to help the woman stop smoking is to（）
A. assess the client’s readiness to stop.
B. suggest that the client reduce the daily number of cigarettes smoked by one-half.
C. provide the client with the telephone number of a formal smoking cessation program.
D. help the client develop a plan to stop.

[单项选择]Rebecca Stevens was the first British woman to climb Mount Everest( 珠穆朗玛峰). Before she went up the highest mountain in the world, she was a journalist(记者) and lived in a small flat(公寓) in South London.
In 1993, Rebecca left her job and her family and traveled to Asia with some other climbers. She found that life on Everest is hard. "You mustn’t carry everything on your back," she said, "so you can only take things that you will need. You can’t wash on the mountain, and in the end I didn’t even take a toothbrush. There is no water but snow."
When Rebecca reached the top of Mount Everest on May 17, 1993, it was the best moment of her life. Suddenly she became famous.
Now she has written a book about the trip and people often ask her to talk about it. She has a new job too, on a science program on television.
Rebecca is well-known today and she has more money than before, but she still lives in the little flat in South London among her pictures and books about
A. climber
B. journalist(记者)
C. scientist

[单项选择]The nurse is assessing a postcraniotomy client and finds the urine output from a catheter is 1,500 mL for the 1st hour and the same for the 2nd hour. The nurse should suspect（）
A. Cushing’s syndrome.
B. diabetes mellitus.
C. adrenal crisis.
D. diabetes insipidus.

[单项选择]The nurse in the emergency department is assessing a 64-year-old client experiencing substernal chest pain. The client’s electrocardiogram shows evidence of myocardial ischemia. Which statement should indicate to the nurse that the client may be a candidate for thrombolytic therapy（）
A. "I have had chest pain for 2 days. "
B. "My chest pain started 3 hours ago. "
C. "My chest pain stops when I take a nitroglycerin pill. "
D. "I have had chest pain on and off all week. "

[单项选择]The nurse is assessing a client with possible Cushing’s syndrome. In a client with Cushing’s syndrome, the nurse would expect to find（）
A. hypotension.
B. thick, coarse skin.
C. deposits of adipose tissue in the trunk and dorsocervical area.
D. weight gain in arms and legs.