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A medication label contains the following information: Methotrexate Injection, USP250 mg(25 mg/mL)10 mL Single Dose VialHow much is needed for this dose? You must label your answer or it will be marked wrong.  Order: Methotrexate 0.5 g IM weekly Give: ____________________

A nurse is caring for a 3-year-old child who has a new diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and is distressed about insulin injections. Which of the following activities should the nurse recognize is therapeutic in helping the child deal with the injection?

A 10-year-old girl comes to the school nurse’s office with type 1 diabetes.  The child reports she took the dose of insulin this morning as instructed and a few bites of breakfast. The nurse notices that the student is nervous, has hand tremors, and is pale & sweaty. The school nurse would suspect:

A nurse is performing a well child checkup on a 12-month old infant. The infant weighed 7 lb, 2 oz at birth. Which measurement below would indicate that the infant’s weight pattern is developing normally?

To select a material as a laser gain medium, a four-level system is preferred because it allows generating a laser beam at four different wavelengths.

While changing the diaper of an infant with Tetralogy of Fallot, the nurse notes the infant starts to appear cyanotic and goes limp. What is the priority nursing action?

For a mode-locking laser, the gain medium ideally supports a single longitudinal mode in order to have a single wavelength output.

Population inversion of molecules in a gain medium is required for a laser system.

The upper energy level of laser emission typically needs to have a lifetime as short as possible in order to quickly emit the laser photons.

The pulse duration of a laser pulse coming out from a waveguide may be different than that of the input laser pulse.