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A patient is being seen in the clinic with a history and presentation suggestive of sickle cell anemia.  The nurse practitioner should order which of the following studies to confirm this diagnosis?

A nurse practitioner is caring for a 61-year-old client obese patient with an elevated body mass index (BMI) that is greater than 40 with a history of diabetes and hypertension. Blood work has indicated that the client has a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 51 ml/min (normal GFR is over 60 ml/min) with elevated serum creatinine levels. What will the nurse practitioner tell the client about their renal function? 

What is the name of this labeled muscle? It is commonly used as an intramuscular injection site in infants.

Each kidney is made up of more than 1 million nephrons, they are the functional unit of the kidney.  The nephrons function is to:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of monopolistic competition?

Quantity of workers Quantity of foot massages per day Fixed cost Variable cost Total cost Average total cost Marginal cost 0   0           1 10           2 25           3 45           4 60           5 70               31)  Alicia Gregory owns a foot massage business. She leases 4 computer-controlled massage booths, for which she pays $125 per day. She cannot increase the number machines she leases without giving the manufacturer 3 months notice. She can hire as many workers as she wants at a cost of $75 per day per worker. These are the only two inputs she uses in her business. Use this information to fill in the columns in the above table.

Urine formation involves the filtration of blood through the glomerulus, tubular reabsorption of electrolytes and nutrients that are needed for body functions.  The movement of fluid through the glomerular capillaries is determined by which of the following: 

Prostatitis refers to a variety of inflammatory disorders of the prostate gland which may be due to bacterial infection.  Chronic bacterial prostatitis is most often due to which of the following:

A client has been taking up to 2400 mg of ibuprofen per day for chronic pain following a motor vehicle accident. The client is diagnosed with drug related kidney injury. The client states, “I thought that taking too many drugs hurt your liver, not your kidneys.” What is the most appropriate response to the client’s statement?

Quantity of Labor Output (units) 1   80 2 170 3 240 4 300 5 350 6 390 7 420   27) If the output price is $3, what is the marginal revenue product of the fifth unit of labor