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An elderly biological male patient presents to urgent care with a history of urinary frequency and decreased urine outflow for 3 months.  The Healthcare Provider (HCP) obtains a Urinary Analysis (UA), and it is noted that the patient is not presenting with a urinary tract infection (UTI).  The HCP then diagnsosis the patient with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH).  Based on the patient’s vital signs, physical assessment, and your knowledge of the various BPH medications, which medication would you recommend to the HCP? Vital Signs Temperature: 97.9 F  (97.5-99.5 F) Pulse: 78 bpm (60-100 bpm) Respiratory Rate: 18 (12-20) Blood Pressure: 112/74 (

You are reviewing vital signs, physical assessment findings, labs, and medications regarding hyperthyroidism.  What statement by your fellow nursing student would you want to clarify?  

Your patient is receiving high dose methotrexate (Rheumatrex) as a part of their antineoplastic treatment.  The patient is scheduled to return to the clinic for a subcutaneous injection of filgrastim (Neupogen) during their nadir period.  What statement by the patient would be a priority for the nurse to provide additional education?

You are taking care of a pregnant person that is 35-weeks pregnant that has gone into labor. You explain to the patient that you will be administering a medication to help decrease uterine contractions to allow her to receive a glucocorticoid for fetal lung development. Which medication do you anticipate administering?

You are reviewing your patient’s 0900 medications and note that they are taking simvastatin (Zocor) and fenofibrate (Tricor) for their past medical history (PMH) of hyperlipidemia.  What nursing implications should the nurse complete prior to administration of the medication? Select all that apply Note: Full credit can only be obtained by selecting only all correct choice.  

A biological male patient has been prescribed finasteride (Proscar) for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). What patient education should the nurse provide?

True or False: You administed isosorbide mononitrate (Imdur) to the patient at 0900.  At noon, your patient begins experiencing angina (chest pain).  It is now contraindicated to administer sublingual nitroglycerin (Nitrostat).

As a recent nurse graduate, you are completing a residency on a hospital medical/surgical floor.  You and your nursing preceptor answer one of your patient’s call lights in which the patient states that they are experiencing 7/10 pain on the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS).  You review the patient’s Medication Administration Record (MAR) and see that they have pain medications prescribed.  What statement(s) by your nurse preceptor should you question?  Use the label to answer the question. Select all that apply Note: Full credit can only be obtained by selecting only all correct choices.   A basic calculator is provided via honor lock.    

Your patient was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) five months ago and initially was instructed by the Health Care Provider (HCP) to take ibuprofen and prescribed glucocorticoids for acute flare-ups. Despite this treatment, your patient continues to have significant RA symptoms and follows back up with his doctor. What medication do you anticipate to be prescribed for this patient?

Use IntelliJ to write a Java program named “PopularVacation” that follows the instructions below. When your program is complete, upload the .java file to CANVAS. As a programming assignment, remember to follow typical instructions and include your name and date. Also please follow good programming style practices and include comments along with your code for full credit! Problem Description: The winter break is upon us and online platforms for booking vacation packages would like to analyze people’s preferences for travel destinations. You are going to write a program that analyzes customer preferences for popular vacation packages during the year.  Follow the instructions below to code the “PopularVacation” program. main Method: Calls the getNumVacationPacks method to get the number of vacation packages to be processed.  Calls the getVacationPacksNames method to get the name of the file containing the vacation package names. Passes the number of vacation packages as a parameter.  Calls the writeVacationPrefData method to get all vacation packages’ preference data filename. Passes the filename containing the vacation package names as a parameter. Prints on the console the name of the file containing vacation package preferences data. Output Example:  The file containing Vacation Packages Preferences data is: VacationPackagePreferred.txt Other Methods: getNumVacationPacks method: takes no input arguments. reads the number of vacation packages to be presented to a customer, as input from the user. Validate that the number is between 1 and 10, both inclusive. returns the number of vacation packages to be managed by the vacation booking software. getVacationPacksNames method: takes one input argument: number of vacation packages. reads the names of the vacation packages (travel destinations) from the user and stores them in an array of Strings. reads the name of the output file from the user into the variable filename1. writes the names of the vacation packages (travel destinations) to the file as follows:Example: for a number of vacation packages = 4 and appropriate user inputs, the file has: 1 Europe 2 Caribbean 3 Alaska   4 Southeast Asia returns filename1. genVacationPrefData method: takes no arguments. generates 12 months of random customer preference numbers (between 1 and 100, both inclusive) for a given vacation package and stores them in an array. Hint: Random integer generation can be done as: int randomNum = min + (int)(Math.random() * (max-min+1)); Example: The array may have the following monthly preferences:  {24, 45, 38, 42, 100, 56, 87, 76, 3, 55, 81, 20} returns the array of generated preferences for the vacation package. writeVacationPrefData method: takes one input argument: the filename of vacation packages (filename1).  reads from the user the name of the output file to write vacation packages customer preferences data as filename2. opens filename1 for reading and filename2 for writing. for each vacation package in filename1: reads the vacation package name from the file calls the genVacationPrefData method to initialize an array of 12 integers with the monthly preferences for that package. uses a loop to find the most popular month (highest value in the array). writes the name of the vacation package, the array returned by the genVacationPrefData method for the particular vacation package, and the number of the most popular month for the package into filename2. Hint: Print the whole array using Arrays.toString(array); Continuing the previous example, filename2 will have: 1 Europe {41, 50, 28, 65, 90, 64, 77, 96, 6, 25, 31, 19} Popular Month: 82 Caribbean {24, 45, 38, 42, 100, 56, 87, 76, 3, 55, 81, 20} Popular Month: 53 Alaska {16, 53, 38, 85, 80, 24, 47, 86, 21, 39, 98, 49} Popular Month: 114 Southeast Asia {88, 99, 8, 35, 60, 44, 7, 26, 29, 85, 61, 34} Popular Month: 2 returns filename2   Ouput Example file: VacationPackagePreferred.txt contains: 1 Europe {41, 50, 28, 65, 90, 64, 77, 96, 6, 25, 31, 19} Popular Month: 82 Caribbean {24, 45, 38, 42, 100, 56, 87, 76, 3, 55, 81, 20} Popular Month: 53 Alaska {16, 53, 38, 85, 80, 24, 47, 86, 21, 39, 98, 49} Popular Month: 114 Southeast Asia {88, 99, 8, 35, 60, 44, 7, 26, 29, 85, 61, 34} Popular Month: 2