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A laboring patient is ordered Cefazolin 1 gram IV Piggyback in 100 mL of sodium chloride to be administered over 20 minutes by infusion pump.  Calculate the IV rate in mL/hr.

The nurse is orienting a graduate nurse administering medications.  Which action by the graduate nurse is incorrect?

The physician ordered 1.5 liters of D5LR to be infused from 0700 until 1900. Calculate the mL/hr the nurse will use to set the pump.  

The health care provider orders: Penicillin G Sodium 1 million units IM q6 hr The pharmacy supplies the medication with the label below:   The nurse adds 11.5 mL of diluent to the medication. After reconstitution, how many mL should the nurse administer? 

A cat being resistant to dog distemper is an example of:

A horse has just received a severe leg laceration which has become contaminated with straw and feces from the stall. An injection of which one of the following would give the horse the fastest protection against the possibility of acquiring tetanus.

After Mrs. Booker was diagnosed with a terminal illness, she decided to consult with multiple specialists. According to Kübler-Ross, this decision is consistent with which of the five typical responses to the prospect of death?

When Mr. Bergman’s wife died, his family members and friends dressed in black, attended a funeral, and participated in a burial service. Mr. Bergman covered all the mirrors in his house with black cloths. This set of culturally specified expressions of thoughts and feelings is __________.

During the phase of “launching children and moving on,” __________.

According to Erikson, the final psychological conflict, __________, involves coming to terms with one’s life.