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The nurse prepares a client for discharge following a vasectomy.  The client asks, “When can I have sexual intercourse with my wife without using a condom?”  What is the best response by the nurse?

What is the percent ee of a mixture that has 80% of one enantiomer and 20% of the other?

Autoregulationis the ability of tissues to regulate their own blood supply

What factors contribute to blood viscosity

The Skilled Nursing Facility where you are working has asked you to screen residents who might be perceived by the state surveyors as having restraints. Which of the following scenarios might indicate that a resident has a restraint?

As a new graduate OT working in an outpatient clinic, you begin working with Justine, a 49 year old woman who underwent a right mastectomy with lymph node removal 12 weeks ago. Your order is to increase endurance to increase her occupational participation. Upon evaluation, you notice her right arm is extremely swollen. 1. What is likely happening, and 2. Considering your role as a new graduate, what would do? 

Jamison is a 73-year-old man admitted to acute care after a fall at home. He reports tripping while rushing to the bathroom. He scored 50 on the Berg Balance Scale and completed basic ADLs with Stand By Assist (SBA). What is the MOST appropriate OT discharge recommendation?

Suzanne is a 50-year-old woman seen in an outpatient OT clinic with episodes of severe vertigo, tinnitus, fluctuating hearing loss, and a feeling of fullness in her ear. Which diagnosis and occupational therapy intervention are MOST appropriate?

Todd is 46 years old, has Type II diabetes, and has a BMI of 40. He recently underwent bariatric surgery and is being discharged home tomorrow. What would your discharge recommendations likely include? 

Joy is a 45 year old mom of 4 active children. She went in for a routine colonoscopy and found that she had stage 3 colorectal cancer and completed her inpatient hospitalization. She was discharged home with recommendations to follow up with outpatient OT, and is still receiving chemotherapy. Upon completing your occupational profile, you find that Joy complains of feeling fatigued and often falls asleep a lot at home. This is interfering with fulfilling her role caring for her children and her role of maintaining a clean home. She wants to get back to cooking healthy for her kids and herself and she was told that keeping a clean house would be good for her to prevent infection since she is currently immunocompromised. Based on these evaluation findings, what would OT intervention likely focus on?