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A 68-year-old client is admitted with pneumonia. ABG results are pH 7.46, PaCO2 30, HCO3 – 19, and SaO2 72. The nurse interprets this as: 

Admission vital signs for a patient who has a brain injury are BP 128/68 mm Hg, heart rate 110 beats/min, and respirations 26 breaths/min. Which set of vital signs, if taken 1 hour later, will be of most concern to the nurse?

The nurse who understands sepsis prevention adheres to all of the following practices, except which one? 

A person brought to the Emergency Department after an acute opioid overdose has respirations of 4 to 5 breaths per minute. Which of the following reflect the blood gas analysis of someone with respiratory depression after an opioid overdose? 

Which information provided by a nurse to a patient newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is accurate?

A thrombus forming on an atherosclerotic plaque can cause occlusion of the vessel and an infarction.  What is the most common reason for a thrombus to form on an atherosclerotic plaque?

Let’s declare a variable named dat as dat = 5.7. What is the type of this variable?

Which of the following bacteria is a known causative agent of endocarditis?

Abnormal blood flow has two major components that lead to increased risk of thrombosis.  1. One of these components is maximized when the heart stops beating.  What is this component? 2. The other component is commonly found to be occurring downstream of atherosclerotic plaques.  What is this component?   3. Of the two components you identified, which one is mostly responsible for the formation of mural thrombi in heart ventricles?

Which of the choices below is not a functional process performed by the respiratory system?