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What considerations should the nurse consider when providing care to a neutropenic patient?  Select all that apply

The most common mode of transmission of HIV is through occupational exposure due to needle sticks.

A friend comes to visit the HIV patient and ask about the risk of HIV when visiting.  What is the best response by the nurse?

A female patient, age 59, has lost 10 lb in the first 3 weeks of her chemotherapy and does not eat because nothing tastes good.  What would be the appropriate nursing diagnosis for the plan of care?

Delivers oxygen without anesthetic gas to the reservoir bag: ________  

A Mediterranean man with HIV presents to the doctor’s office with c/o skin problems.  You noticed blue, red, purplish raised lesions.  You know that this is possibly a rare cancer of the skin and mucous membranes of HIV positive that is called? 

A 24-year-old man with HIV has pneumonia which of the following observations takes immediate priority?

Holds the oxygen and anesthetic gas for the next breath: ___________

An oxygen flow rate of 0.35 L/min is the same as 350 ml/min.

Use the following information to answer questions 19-21. You need to anesthetize a 250g rat with ketamine IP.  The Ketamine dose is 90mg/kg, and the concentration of Ketamine is 100mg/ml.    What is the rat’s dose of ketamine in mg?