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Which statement, if made by a new circulating nurse, is appropriate? 

The nurse charts signs of infected phlebitis as:

A nurse educator discusses career options with a group of nursing students and describes the intraoperative activities of the perioperative nurses. The scrub nurse should? Select all that apply.

On entering the room, a nurse finds the patient sitting upright in bed with his upper torso resting on the over-bed table. The nurse assesses that this patient is experiencing respiratory distress. Contributing factors may include which of the following? Select all that apply.

The nurse is caring for a patient whose ABG results reveal the following: pH 7.56, PaCO2 32 mm Hg, HCO3 42 mEq/L, PaO2 90 mm Hg. Which condition will the nurse expect to see in the patient’s chart as the underlying cause of these results?

A viral infection that might cause obstruction of the upper airway in a child is called:

Which of the following would the paramedic be LEAST likely to ask the EMT to do?

Drowning is most accurately defined as:

A transverse wave has the displacement y(x, t) = (3.5 mm) sin[(2.0 m−1)x−wt] . If its speed is 15 m/s, what is the period of the wave (in seconds)?

A rock is thrown horizontally off a cliff that is H= 23 m high. The rock strikes the ground at an angle of 46 degrees. With what initial speed (in m/s) was the rock thrown? Assume that the air resistance is negligible.