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What does each letter in the acronym ‘AIDET’ stand for? A = I =  D =  E =  T = 

You have to calculate a CRI for your 22 lb patient at a rate of 3 mg/kg/hour.  What will the hourly rate be if the drugs comes in a strength of 22 mg/mL?

A 14-year-old child has a 2-week history of severe itching and tearing of both eyes. The advanced practice nurse notes redness and swelling of the eyelids along with stringy, mucoid discharge. What will the APRN prescribe?

Which of the following does NOT describe intrinsic control of blood flow?

Which equation correctly represents the circumferential stress in a thin-walled pressurized cylinder?

A child reports itching in both ears and is having trouble hearing. The advanced practice nurse notes periauricular edema and marked swelling of the external auditory canal and elicits severe pain when manipulating the external ear structures. Which is an appropriate intervention?

Most ventral skeletal structure in the median plane of the thoracic region.

Compare and contrast the circumferential stress distribution in the following examples of pressurized thick-walled cylinders:  synthetic tubes,  the aorta, a vein used in coronary bypass surgery.

Which part of the digestive tract is most important in terms of use for sausage casings?   

In what ways do soft tissues respond to stress differently than more rigid, isotropic, homogenous materials, and what does this mean for biomedical applications?  And how do features in soft biological materials complicate our use of LEHI materials to analyze them?