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While caring for a client with an autoimmune skin disorder, the nurse observes a red-colored, butterfly-patterned lesion over the client’s nose and cheeks. After reviewing the skin biopsy reports, the nurse also finds deposits of IgM immunoglobulin in the lesions of the client. Which skin disorder should the nurse expect to find in the medical record of this client?

Stasis, also called septicemia, is a bodywide infection that overwhelms the immune system and causes severe multiorgan compromise.

A research nurse, while participating in clinical trials, finds that a client has expressive aphasia. Which pathophysiological change should the nurse expect to be the cause of this condition in the client?

A computed tomography (CT) scan report of a client who has a neurological disorder reveals the presence of bleeding in a specific area of the brain. On assessment, the nurse finds elevated blood pressure and cerebral edema. The primary health care provider instructs the nurse to administer intravenous (IV) mannitol. Which condition should the nurse expect the client to have?

A nurse finds that a client has motor and sensory loss on the right side of the body. The diagnostic tests reveal ischemia. The nurse suspects that an ischemic stroke has occurred. Which other finding indicates that the client has ischemia in the left hemisphere?

During SIRS, the cardiac, hepatic, ____, digestive, and renal systems attempt to compensate for an insult to the body.  Heart rate, cardiac output, and respiratory rate ____ Gastrointestinal (GI) activity and urine output are reduced. There are increased levels of ______glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, _____ ___ __ & ___ ___

Which type of shock occurs as a result of failure of the heart?

In a client with Guillain–Barré syndrome, the patient will have progressive symmetric muscle weakness accompanied by absent or depressed deep tendon reflexes.

Which type of generalized seizure is also called the grand mal seizure?

Classic diverticulitis pain: dull, episodic, or left quadrant or mid-abdominal pain, fever, and nausea; LLQ tenderness on palpation.