Author: Anonymous

When you breathe in, what is the correct order of structures that air will pass through from first to last?

Questions 30-33 are based on the following scenario: An 80-year-old jazz singer, began experiencing difficulty breathing and an increase in his cough and sputum production during a performance last week. He was hospitalized due to an acute exacerbation of his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and was receiving high-dose systemic corticosteroids and other medications for comorbidities of type II diabetes and mild cognitive impairment. After 6 days of treatment, the patient developed symptoms of steroid-induced psychosis (delusions; hallucinations; reduced mentation) and began demanding to leave the hospital because he had to get back to his band and tour. A psychiatric consult was completed, a new antipsychotic medication ordered, and the steroid dose decreased. However, even with the new medication orders, the evening nurse administered the orginal dose of steroids and did not initiate the new antipsychotic medication. The next morning, when the dayshift RN arrived to perform the patient’s assessment, the patient’s oxygen saturation level was 81%. The nurse observed that at the time the patient did not have on his nasal cannula. The dayshift nurse replaced the patient’s nasal cannula and educated him on the necessity to wear the cannula. When the dayshift nurse returned to check on him, the patient was not in his bed or in his room. Upon beginning a search, the dayshift nurse learned that another nurse had seen the patient get on the elevator, dressed in street clothes. The police were notified and a search and rescue operation began. The patient was found dead roughly one mile from the hospital, six hours after he eloped from the hospital. The daughter of the patient later filed a malpractice lawsuit. Is there a duty owed by the nurses in this situation?

In this situation, all of the following standards of care was abrogated except:

A nurse is leaving work and almost to his car when someone calls his name. When the individual approaches, the nurse is given a summons. Upon getting into his car the nurse opens the envelope and reads the paperwork enclosed. He learns he has been named in a malpractice lawsuit. What is the priority action for the nurse?

Which statement, if made by a nurse, best describes the most basic purpose of standards of care?

Which of the following interventions are priority actions of the nurse in response to an angry patient.

________ happens in the cytoplasm, whereas ________ happens in the mitochondrion.

_________________ is the major cation in the intracellular compartment whereas ___________________ is the major cation in the extracellular compartment of the body.

Some varieties of cholesterol are waxy lipids that are found in the blood and may be considered “good” cholesterol or “bad.” This is because ______________________ carries cholesterol to your liver where it can be removed from your bloodstream before it builds up in your arteries.        _______________________________, on the other hand, takes cholesterol directly to your arteries which can lead to atherosclerosis.

Which statement is NOT true regarding sexual reproduction? (question A)