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A nurse tells you that a client is very demanding and should be made to wait beyond her time limit for an analgesic.  Your best response to this statement is that making a client wait: a. will help prevent addiction to the drug.b. creates anxiety which in turn increases pain.c. may increase her blood pressure to dangerous levels.d. may help wean her off of the narcotic.

Your client is having incisional pain on her second postoperative day. She was medicated an hour ago.  Which of the following noninvasive nursing interventions will best aid in decreasing her pain at this time? a. Change her position and give her a backrub.b. Assist her in range-of-motion exercises.c. Give her an injection of hydromorphone (Demerol) as ordered.d. Explain to her that she has just been medicated and to try to relax.

The nurse may expect that a client in anaphylactic shock will receive epinephrine and:“Select All that Apply.” a. antihistamine.b. corticosteroids.c. oxygen.d. antibiotics.e. anticoagulants    

Your client is developing symptoms of respiratory alkalosis related to an anxiety attack. Which nursing intervention is appropriate? a. make sure his oxygen is being administered as ordered.b. have him breathe into a paper bag.c. place him in a semi-Fowler’s position.d. administer sodium bicarbonate IV stat.

Which laboratory values would the nurse indicate that a patient is in acidosis? “Select All that Apply.” a. 7.1 pHb. 7.67 pHc. 7.32 pHd. 7.80 pHe. 7.37 pH

The physician ordered Sporanox (itraconazole) 5 mg/kg q day PO. Pt weighs 47 lbs. How many mg will you administer? a. 106.8 mgb. 0.1 mgc. 100 mgd. 107 mg

The nurse has instructed a postoperative client about pain and pain relief methods. The nurse determines that the client needs further instruction when the patient says: a. “If I am feeling pain, I should ask for my ordered pain medication.”b. “All pain is real, regardless of its cause, and there is a physical and mental component.”c. “If I ask for something for pain, I may become addicted to the medication.d. “Lack of pain expression does not necessarily mean lack of pain.

A client complains of pain in the upper thighs due to a bladder infection.  This type of pain is called: a. recurring pain.b. referred pain.c. psycogenic.d. radiohumeral pain.

**NOTE: questions 22-24 are about pre-exercise feeding of GRAIN and relate to each other** If a horse will be ridden at low- to moderate-intensities for 8 hours, explain how feeding a large meal of grain 2 hours before exercise could impact the horse’s performance. 

True/False:  A benefit to adding vegetable oil to the equine diet is that it will lubricate the gut, preventing feed from getting stuck and causing impaction colic.