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A client has been prescribed diltiazem for a heart dysrhythmia. Which statement by the nurse indicates effective teaching?

The nurse is caring for a client with hypertension and diabetes and receiving nadolol. Which intervention should the nurse incorporate into the plan of care?

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a young adult female client who has been prescribed lisinopril. Which instructions should the nurse plan to include? Select all that apply.

The physician orders Aminophylline 44 mg/hr IV.  The pharmacy sends an IV bag labeled:  Aminophylline 1g/250 mL NS. Calculate the milliliters per hour to set the IV pump. Round to the nearest whole number

3. “He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre…”   Explain what the writer means by the underlined words.   In your response consider word choice, sentence structure and punctuation where relevant.             (2)

12. Read these extracts from Text 2 and Text 3.   Text 2: Our classic, unnamed Poe narrator begins this story by lamenting the fact that society has branded him as a madman. He counters this by claiming that he is merely “nervous” — ultra-sensitive to stimuli and made unusually jumpy by this ability to sense things that others miss. He proceeds to explain how he became labelled a lunatic by giving the backstory to a murder he has been charged with — that of his roommate, an old man. We have no reference point for their relationship: are they friends, acquaintances, brothers, father, and son, invalid and caregiver?   Text 3: TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story.   Explain the different ways in which these extracts use similar language features to create two different effects.   In your answer, you must only refer to these extracts.                                                   (6)

  Sub-Total: 30 marks   Grand Total: 70 marks 

Order:  0.5 L of NS to be infused in 4 hours Drop factor:  20 gtts/mL Calculate the number of drops per minute required to infuse the NS.

  Read Text 3 and answer Questions 14 to 20.   Right-click on the button below to open Text 3 in a new tab. An extract from “The Tell-Tale Heart”  

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