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The nurse is preparing to witness the patient signing the Informed Consent form when the patient says, “I don’t understand what the doctor said about the surgery.” Which action should the nurse take next? 

The nurse teaches pursed-lip breathing to a patient diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The nurse understands which is the best description of the underlying purpose of this type of breathing?

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?