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A client, scheduled to begin chemotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer, is anxious about the possibility of experiencing nausea. When explaining the mechanism of action for ondansetron which was prescribed for nausea and vomiting, the nurse should include what informational statement?

A community health nurse is teaching a group of seniors at a local seniors’ center. The nurse is addressing the issue of laxative overuse in this population.  What consequence of the overuse of laxatives should the nurse reinforce in her teaching?

(LC) The goals of which two social movements were served by affirmative action programs? (1 point)

(MC) The quote below was written in the 1940s: “Suppose my neighbor’s home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire…I don’t say to him before that operation, Neighbor, my garden hose cost me 15 dollars; you have to pay me 15 dollars for it… I don’t want 15 dollars, I want my garden hose back after the fire is over.”Source: http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odllpc2.html Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the quote above to justify which of the following policies? (2 points)

(MC) Which of these contributed directly to the outbreak of Vietnam War? (2 points)

Consistent with the notion of a right-hemisphere superiority in spatial ability is the relation between right-hemisphere lesions and

Name the structure that is responsible for providing the compressive strength of bone.

(LC) The term “Iron Curtain” was used by Winston Churchill to describe a divide between which of these? (1 point)

(MC) Which statement explains the connection between the Civil Rights movement and the antiwar movement? (2 points)

(MC) The quote below comes from the War Powers Resolution: The President in every possible instance shall consult with Congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities or into situation where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and after every such introduction shall consult regularly with the Congress until United States Armed Forces are no longer engaged in hostilities or have been removed from such situations. Source: http://www.policyalmanac.org/world/archive/war_powers_resolution.shtml How did the Vietnam War contribute to passage of this resolution? (2 points)