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The nurse is caring for a client with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Which intervention would be contraindicated for this client?

The nurse is reviewing lab results for a client admitted with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Which findings are indicative of this complication?

What is the name of the voice in the poem that addresses the reader?

A nurse is caring for a client who is taking warfarin PO daily. Which assessment is used to evaluate the effectiveness of this therapy?

On what date did Thoreau begin to spend his nights and das at Walden pond?

What inspired the stories like “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” found in Washington Irving’s Sketch Book?

When his first attempt to fire Bartleby fails, how does the narrator finally rid himself of his employee?

Provide the author (1 pt.), title (1 pt.), and 2-3 complete sentences explaining the significance (3 pt.) of five of the following quotes. Make sure you number each answer to match the quote you are discussing.   1. “Where is your mother?”       “Oh, she too had died but a short time since; she broke a blood-vessel in a fit of passion at a New England peddler.” There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could contain himself no longer. He caught his daughter and her child in his arms. “I am your father!” cried he— 2. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. 3. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. . .I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life… 4. The fatal Hand had grappled with the mystery of life, and was the bond by which the angelic spirit kept itself in union with a mortal frame. As the last crimson tint of the birth-mark—that sole token of human imperfection—faded from her cheek, the parting breath of the now perfect woman passed into the atmosphere 5. It was then that I became distinctly aware of a gentle foot-fall upon the carpet, and near the couch; and in a second there after, as Rowena was in the act of raising the wine to her lips, I saw, or may have dreamed that I saw, fall within the goblet . . . three or four large drops of a brilliant and ruby colored fluid. 6. Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master. Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read. 7. I celebrate myself, and sing myself,     And what I assume you shall assume,     For every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you.              I loafe and invite my soul,             I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.   8.      God preaches, a noted Clergyman –          And the sermon is never long,         So instead of getting to Heaven, at last –          I’m going, all along.  

For poem 519, the in first line of the poem, “This is my letter to the world,” the word “this” presumably refers to the poem itself. How does the speaker describe the origins of this “letter” and the message it contains?

The nurse is assessing a toddler on admission to the walk-in clinic. Which signs are classic for croup?