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All of the following actions are within a nursing student’s scope of practice EXCEPT:

Algae can produce a cyanotoxin and can be harmful to humans.

The nurse auscultates the apical pulse of a 40-year-old patient and calculates 55 beats per minute. What does this finding indicate?

A nurse assesses a patient’s wound after removing the dressing. The findings are: Wound base: red granulation tissue Wound edges: pink epithelial tissue filling in from edges Periwound area: intact and blanchable What do these findings indicate?

While assessing the lower extremities, the nurse is unable to palpate a dorsalis pedis pulse on her patient’s left foot. What should her NEXT action be?

Complete the sentence: A safety culture _________.

You see an order for “blood glucose monitoring ACHS” in your patient’s chart. Based on this order, when should you check your patient’s blood glucose level?

On exam, a patient has a pink rash with multiple, irregularly-shaped lesions. The lesions merge together making it difficult to count them. What is the pattern of this rash?

According to the current events/team presentation on Globalization & Dani Rodrik’s Paradox, which of the following should not be included in the 2 of 3 dimensions that can be included @ 1 time:

To obtain accurate assessment data on a hospitalized patient, the student nurse should: