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33. The nurse is caring for a patient who has septic shock. Which assessment finding is most important for the nurse to report to the health care provider?

37. The nurse has just completed an infusion of a 1000 mL bolus of 0.9% normal saline in a patient with severe sepsis. One hour later, which laboratory result requires immediate nursing action?

41. The nurse has just completed administration of a 1000-L bolus of 0.9% normal saline. The nurse assesses the patient to be slightly confused, with a mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) of 50 mm Hg, a heart rate of 110 beats/min, urine output of 10 mL for the past hour, and a central venous pressure (CVP/RAP 1-8 mmHg) of 2 mm Hg. What is the best interpretation of these results by the nurse?

47. An 18-year-old patient has chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation for leukemia. While waiting for marrow recovery she develops respiratory failure and needs mechanical ventilation with 100% oxygen. Shortly after she requires increasing doses of noradrenaline and progresses to renal failure. The intensive care team suggest that treatment should be withdrawn as her chances of survival are remote, but the hematologists argue that her renal, respiratory, and cardiovascular failure are potentially reversible if the bone marrow is given time to recover. After discussion with the family it is agreed that treatment should be withdrawn on the grounds of futility. You are the primary nurse involved in this case what will you do? Select all that apply.

28. After a patient who has septic shock receives 2 L of IV normal saline, the central venous pressure is 8 mm Hg (normal 8-12 mmHg) and the blood pressure is 82/40 mm Hg. Which medication would the nurse anticipate being prescribed?

The (1)___________(a. PC1, b. PC2) captures the largest variance in the sample data. The (2)___________(a. PC1, b. PC2) captures the second largest variance in the sample data. The direction of PC2 is orthogonal to PC1. PC1 and PC2 are (3)___________(a. correlated, b. uncorrelated).

Why are immediate values in instructions not directly utilized for ALU operations, and how does the CPU handle these immediate values prior to employing them as ALU operands?

Based on the above plot with the inertia the optimal number of clusters for K-means is:

Why is the “assume-not-taken” strategy not a good solution to control hazards in a pipeline?

A multiplexer is utilized to choose inputs during the write-back phase of a processor pipeline. What is the function of the multiplexer in this stage, and what are its two inputs?