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You can work on Connect assignments in advance, but you cannot submit them for credit after the due date.

I can ask for individual extra credit assignments, especially at the end of the semester when I really need extra points.

You have a PCA pump. The patient has Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) 10 mg in 50 milliliters of normal saline. The patient’s dose is 0.2 milligrams per injection with a 10 minutes lock out. The patient has made 8 injections in the last 2 hours. How many milligrams has the patients received in the last 2 hours. 

The nurse has just hung a new IV bag of 1000 milliliters of Normal saline. A 250 milliliter bolus of IV normal saline is to be infused over 20 minutes per IV pump.   At how many milliliters would the nurse set the volume to be infused?

Heparin 25,000 units in 250 ml D5W is to be infused at a rate of 12 ml per hour. The physician has ordered to decrease the heparin to 1100 units per hour. What milliliters per hour would the nurse set the IV pump rate?

According to the SMART goal system, “A” stands for _____.

Sharing personal information about yourself that exceeds the expectations of the moment is referred to as _____. 

In the _____ stage of team development, a group is typically in conflict and chaos as it has not yet established ways to communicate about these differences.   A.  norming   B.  storming   C.  adjourning   D.  forming

Information overload, time, emotions, and use of slang are considered to be:   A.  potential barriers to communication.   B.  communication tactics.   C.  necessary communication components.   D.  communication enhancers.

Jacob, an employee at a consumer electronics company, is highly enthusiastic about learning new skills, meeting new people, and approaching work-related tasks in a novel way. In the context of the Big Five personality model, which of the following does Jacob best illustrate?   A.  Low agreeableness   B.  Low conscientiousness   C.  High openness to experience   D.  High uncertainty avoidance