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You are working in hematology during your clinical rotation and receive a blood smear for a patient with a hemoglobin value of 7 g/dL. What adjustment should be made to your peripheral blood smear technique to achieve a blood smear of appropriate thickness? 

What are hemosiderin and ferritin?

 Identify a situation where a patient could present with a relative neutropenia that is NOT absolute. 

Which CD marker can be detected on mature B cells? 

Match each clinical diagnosis with the most likely resulting hematologic abnormality.

At the scene of a train crash, the nurse triages the victims. Which clients would be coded for triage as most urgent (immediate) and tags them as red? Select all that apply.  

A patient has had a stroke and the wife asks why he has a nasal airway in place. The nurse explains the rationale for the nasal airway to the wife. Select all that apply.

Which assessment finding best indicates that tracheostomy suctioning has been effective?

You have been taking care of your patient for the past 6 hours. You enter the room, to find him confused, slurring his speech, and acting very differently from before. As the primary nurse for this patient you would implement which nursing action first?

The nurse is preparing assignments in a pediatric unit for the night shift. Which of the following would be appropriate to assign the LPN/LVN?