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Please calculate the cardiac output for the following patient: Temp: 36.4, HR: 84, BP: 146/82, RR: 16, SpO2: 99%. Ejection fraction: 56%, Central Venous Pressure: 5, Stroke Volume: 70.

A patient who developed chest pain 4 hours ago may be having a myocardial infarction. Which laboratory test result would be most helpful in indicating myocardial damage?

A patient who is recovering from an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) asks the nurse about safely resuming sexual intercourse. Which response by the nurse provides the most useful information for the patient?

A patient with dilated cardiomyopathy has new onset atrial fibrillation that has been unresponsive to drug therapy for four days. Which topic would the nurse plan to include in patient teaching?

While admitting an 82-yr-old patient with acute decompensated heart failure to the hospital, the nurse learns that the patient lives alone and sometimes confuses the “water pill” with the “heart pill.” What would the nurse include in the discharge plan?

Inmate disturbances can take the form of:

In an attempt to eliminate sexual victimization in prison, the ________ was passed by Congress in 2003.

A model suggests that prison culture is influenced by situations rather than constants and can vary over time and place is the:

Which of the following is NOT one of the major reasons that women are confined to administrative segregation?

The model that views losses by an inmate during incarceration as one of the costs of imprisonment is known as the: