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The nurse observes a patient during a seizure and notes that the patient’s entire body became rigid, and the muscles in all four extremities alternated between relaxation and contraction. Which type of seizure would the nurse document that the patient had experienced?

Venous obstruction leads to edema because it ________ pressure.

The nurse is performing a cardiovascular assessment on a client with heart failure. Which of the following would the nurse assess to obtain the best information about the client’s right-sided heart function?

A 41-year-old male presents to the clinic with complaints of fatigue and pallor, generalized weakness, a sore tongue, and numbness of the hands and feet. Which of the following disorders should the nurse suspect? 

Cardiac output is the product of both:

Honorlock will be used for ALL exams, I.E. regular course exams AND the Final Exam.

The student nurse is assisting in the post-op care of a patient who had a kidney biopsy. The student demonstrates a reluctance to roll the client to change the linens because the client states that she is “too tired.” The nurse reminds the student that a priority assessment for this client is to assess what factors?

Chronic glomerulonephritis also known as chronic nephritic syndrome is characterized by the following:

A client has been diagnosed with acute glomerular nephritis. Which question should you ask this client in attempting to establish a cause?

Previous Scenario continued for questions 17 through 23: You grow the bacteria in the presence and absence of zinc and track the production of SEU mRNA and protein.  The results from your experiments are below.     Figure 1. RNA-seq transcript mapping (A) and protein concentration (B) of SEU and RpoD in cells grown in the presence of zinc.  RNA-seq transcript mapping (C) and protein concentration (D) of SEU and RpoD in cells grown in the absence of zinc. RpoD is a protein found in bacterial RNA polymerase.