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The client is being seen for chest congestion, occasionally coughing up thick, yellow secretions, and shortness of breath for several days. The client’s chest x-ray is positive for pneumonia. The client has a 2-pack per day smoking habit. Vital signs, reported for the client by the CNA, are within normal limits except for respirations, which are 22 bpm. Based on the patient’s assessment data, which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate?

Nurses utilize the Health and Illness models to understand their patients’ health-related behaviors and to adapt care for populations of diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Which of the following Health and Illness models focuses on what people perceive or believe to be true about themselves in relation to their health? 

Clinical disorders associated with central sleep apnea include:

What is the AHI for a patient who had 48 apneic apneas and 32 hypopneas over 8 hours of total sleep?

What are the configurations of carbons 2 and 3 in the Fischer projection below? 

According to Epstein and Knight (the advocates of the “strategic model”)

Which of the following conclusions can we confidently draw from the ideological scores of appointees to the Supreme Court since the 1950s: 

It is phosphorylated by TFIIH

If the sequence TCGCTA mutates to become TCGCAA, the T to A alteration is called a:

For each of the E.coli strains shown below, indicate whether production of functional β-galactosidase is constitutive (enzyme is made all the time), inducible (enzyme is only made when lactose is present) or inactive (functional enzyme is not present under any condition).    Definitions: I+ : wild-type lac repressor I- : non-functional lac repressor Is : super-repressor that cannot be removed from the operator under any circumstances O+: wild-type operator OC: mutant operator that cannot be bound by any repressor (not even the super-repressor) Z+: wild-type gene for β-galactosidase Z- : mutant gene for β-galactosidase that produces a non-functional enzyme   Please watch your spelling!   Write inducible, constitutive or inactive in the boxes next to strain information.     plasmid I+ OC Z- / chromosome I- O+ Z+       [1]          plasmid IS OC Z- / chromosome I- O+ Z+       [2]      plasmid I+ Oc Z+ / chromosome I+ O+ Z+     [3]       plasmid I+ O+ Z+ / chromosome I- O+ Z+    [4]       plasmid IS O+ Z- / chromosome I+ OC Z+  [5]