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Which factor in a pregnant client’s history would the nurse recognize as a risk factor for abruptio placentae?

Which of the following procedures is used to relieve numbness and tingling in the ring and small finger?

Which of the following surgeries is performed to treat Glaucoma?

When positioning a patient for a gynecological procedure involving the candy cane stirrups, the surgical assistant is deliberate in avoiding pressure on the lateral aspect of the patient’s knee to prevent injury to which nerve?

An elderly white woman is hit by a bus and severly injured. Accident investigators are informed that she lives in an abandoned wearhouse, where few personal effects include several wine bottles and an expired driver’s license indicating she is 72 years old. At the hospital, she is found to be severly anemic. List all the factors you can think of that may contribute to her anemia. 

The kidneys are highly vascular organs. Approximately how much of the entire circulating blood volume is processed by the kidneys at any one time?

A client is crying after undergoing dilation and curettage after an early miscarriage (spontaneous abortion). Which response would the nurse give?

The infundibulum is a ___________.

A 26-year-old primigravida experiencing severe abdominal pain is brought to the emergency department by ambulance with a suspected ruptured tubal pregnancy. Which is the priority nursing action?

The extraocular muscles work in yoked pairs, with ocular movements generated by an increase in the tone of one set of muscles and a decrease in the tone of the antagonistic muscles. Of the two muscle types, how many are represented in each eye?