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The nurse ensures medication safety of controlled substances when the nurse does what.

Which of the following is not a mechanism of musculoskeletal injury?

The nurse is teaching the family member of a client with Alzheimer’s Disease about donepezil (Aricept), an indirect-acting cholinergic agonist. Which statement by the family member indicates understanding of indirect-acting cholinergic medications?

When used as parameters, these types of variables allow a function to access the parameter’s original argument.

Which of the following negatively impacts Health Literacy?

A patient with a severe infection has a health care provider prescription to receive a loading dose of an antibiotic. What is the purpose of a loading dose?

The nurse is caring for a client who is taking ipratropium (Atrovent) 36mcg per MDI four times a day. The client reports he sometimes develops mild hoarseness with this medication. What is the nurse’s next appropriate action?

Which of the following would cause a leftward shift in the supply curve for car washes?

Steve went to his favorite hamburger restaurant with $3, expecting to buy a $2 hamburger and a $1 soda. When he arrived, he discovered that hamburgers were on sale for $1 each, so Steve bought two hamburgers and a soda. Steve’s response to the decrease in the price of hamburgers is best explained by

You are called to assist a 25-year-old female patient who is in profound respiratory distress. The patient has a history of asthma and a severe allergy to peanuts. She has a prescribed albuterol inhaler and an epinephrine auto-injector. The patient states she was working in her garden when she accidentally stirred up a hornets’ nest and was stung multiple times. The patient has wheezing in all fields, and is breathing at 28 times per minute. She states that she triggered her asthma by running across the yard to the safety of her home. As you apply oxygen, you notice that she is now speaking in two- to three-word sentences, her skin has splotches, and her tongue and neck appear to be swelling. Your next action is to call medical control and then do what?