A client admitted with status asthmaticus requires endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. Which intervention decreases the client’s risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia?

The patient has Stage I pressure ulcers on her heels bilaterally. The patient's husband asks the nurse if he can massage her feet. Which is the most appropriate response by the nurse?

The 20-year-old patient with asthma presents to the emergency department with increased work of breathing and severe wheezing after exposure to household dust and mold. The patient used the albuterol inhaler 6 times in the previous 4 hours with minimal relief. Upon inspection, the nurse notes extensive accessory respiratory muscle use with moderate supraclavicular retractions and nasal flaring. The nurse auscultates expiratory wheezing in all lung fields. The patient is afebrile, normotensive, significantly tachypneic, and mildly tachycardic. The nurse anticipates which findings on a chest x-ray?