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Your patient is having a sudden and severe anaphylactic reaction to a medication. You immediately stop the medication and call a rapid response. The patient’s blood pressure is 80/52, heart rate 120, and oxygen saturation 87%. Audible wheezing is noted along with facial redness and swelling. As the nurse you know that the first initial treatment for this patient’s condition is which of the following?

You find an animal with 3 germ layers, well-developed tissues and organs. This animal is most likely….

The physician orders Epinephrine (Adrenalin) drip at 2 mcg/min. Pharmacy prepares 2 mg in 250 mL D5W. With a programmable pump, what would be the rate of administration in mL/hour? Calculate to the nearest tenth of the decimal place. 

Phoebe Davidson’s health insurance policy includes a $500 deductible and a coinsurance provision requiring her to pay 20 percent thereafter. Also, the policy has stop-loss feature that capped her out-of-pocket expenses at $3,700. Her medical bills total $7,000. What amount is she required to pay personally?

A patient is admitted to a cardiac floor with CHF exacerbation. Which is the priority nursing intervention?

Which of the following categories will the patient’s insurance information belong in the patient’s health record?

Being __________ helps us to be mindful of bias so that we do not project our own ideologies on those we work with

Animals classified as Ecdysozoans share which of the following characteristics?

A person is able to cope with and adjust to everyday stresses. The person:

A nurse is titrating a continuous infusion of intravenous norepinephrine for a patient with septic shock. The current dose is 0.05 mcg/kg/min, and the patient’s mean arterial pressure (MAP) remains below the target of 65 mmHg. The healthcare provider orders to increase the dose by 0.02 mcg/kg/min every 10 minutes until the MAP is above 65 mmHg. After the first titration, the patient’s MAP is still below 65 mmHg. What should the nurse do next?