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As a nurse practioner, a new patient comes in and tells you that she is full of energy, so much so that she can barely sleep. She also mentions that she has recently lost weight but has not made significant changes to her diet or exercise routine. Your first thought is that the patient has Grave’s disease, which affects an organ in the endocrine system. Which hormone is principally responsible for regulating the body’s metabolism?

A nursing student is performing range of motion (ROM) exercises.  Which observation by the instructor indicates additional teaching is required? 

The nurse is providing care to a client diagnosed with left lower extremity (LLE) deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The prescriber has ordered warfarin 20 mg (an anticoagulant) by mouth daily. The client is concern about the medication action. Which action by the nurse is considered unsafe?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY: If the permeability of a resting axon to sodium ions increases (a sodium channel opens):

In the simple deposit expansion model, if the required reserve ratio is 20 percent and the Fed increases reserves by $100, checkable deposits can potentially expand by

Adjustable rate mortgages

Rising interest-rate risk

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY: Once you get your high-energy patient’s symptoms under control, you peform some tests and determine that instead of Grave’s disease, she actually has a tumor on the endocrine organ that produces the hormone that is too high. If that tumor is an active tumor, and is causing the organ to produce too much of all of its hormones, what other signs or symptoms would you expect to see?

If the FDIC decides that a bank is too big to fail, it will use the ________ method, effectively ensuring that ________ depositors will suffer losses.

When the Fed sells $100 worth of bonds to a primary dealer, reserves in the banking system