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An LPN is caring for four clients in a medical-surgical unit. Each client has a respiratory condition requiring assessment. Which client should the LPN see first?

A patient is diagnosed with left-sided systolic dysfunction heart failure. Which of the following are expected findings with this condition?

The nurse recognizes that the most common symptom of primary hypertension is?

A nurse is caring for a client with left sided heart failure who has an ejection fraction of 35%. Which of the following assessments is most important for the nurse to monitor?

Which organism, associated with tuberculosis in cattle, causes tuberculosis in humans, especially in regions where diary farming is prevalent?

Acid-fast staining of a smear prepared from a digested sputum showed slender, slightly curved, beaded, red mycobacterial rods. Growth on Middlebrook 7H10 slants produced buff-colored microcolonies with a serpentine pattern after 14 days at 37 degrees Celsius. Niacin and nitrate reduction tests were positive. What is the most probable presumptive identification?

In this type of antimicrobial susceptibility test, a McFarland 0.5 standardized suspension of bacteria is swabbed over the surface of a Mueller-Hinton agar plate, and paper disks containing single concentrations of each antimicrobial agent are placed onto the inoculated surface.  What is the name of this test?

Which of the following mycobacteria produces pigmented colonies in the dark (is a scotochromogen)?

A main guiding principle of antimicrobial therapy is to use

The 0.5 McFarland standard provides turbidity comparable to that of a bacterial suspension containing approximately: