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A 57-year-old male is admitted to the hospital with left flank pain.  Blood tests indicate hematuria (blood in the urine) and anemia.  An MRI reveals that blood flow in the left renal vein is being occluded by an aneurysm in an artery where the vein crosses the abdominal aorta.  The aneurysm is most likely located in which structure that is located anterior to the left renal vein?

A patient’s arterial blood gas (ABG) results include the following: PH 7.48, PaO2 84 mm Hg, PaCO2 of 30, HCO3 of 22 meq/L. For what should the nurse assess the patient?

A patient was admitted yesterday to the hospital for treatment of gun shot wound. The patient has also developed a productive cough and fever of 103.4 F. The patient is breathing on their own and doesn’t require mechanical ventilation. On assessment you note coarse crackles in the right lower lobe. A chest x-ray shows infiltrates with consolidation in the right lower lobe. Based on this specific patient scenario what type of pneumonia is this?

The nurse is preparing the patient for a procedure that involves visualizing airways, collecting lung tissue and performing irrigation if needed. The nurse would be preparing the patient for which procedure?

The nurse would interpret 10 mm induration resulting from a TB skin test as positive finding in which clients?  select all that apply?

The nurse can best determine the most accurate value for a patient’s oxygenation status by monitoring which level?

The correct order for the stages of a phage infection are:

Which of the following may be used by microbes for adherence and biofilm formation?

Mannitol salt agar contains 7.5% salt which selects against salt intolerant bacteria. Mannitol is an alcohol that may be fermented by certain bacteria. A Gram positive coccus is able to grow on mannitol salt agar and ferments mannitol, this bacteria is probablya. Micrococcus luteus

Refrigeration and freezing are used to preserve foods, because cold causes