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A nurse is caring for a client who had a CT scan with IV contrast in the emergency department this morning for abdominal pain.  Which medication will be held for 48 hours post procedure?

 Capillary blood drawn from a site that has been warmed:

At the end of a 12 hour shift, a nursing assistant reports emptying a total of 140 mL of urine from a client’s indwelling urinary catheter bag. During the previous 12 hours, the client’s output was 150 mL. The nurse understands that this is best defined as ____________________________ (fill in the blank).  

A client’s urinalysis results are as follows:  nitrite:  positive specific gravity:  1.026 appearance: cloudy What action by the nurse is appropriate?

 Failure to wipe away the first drop of blood when collecting a newborn filter paper screening test could:

All of the following are point-of-care testing (POCT) for coagulation except the:

 Which of the following statements is wrong?

 The maximum safe length of lancets used for heel puncture is:

 All of the following can affect the quality of newborn bilirubin results except:

To determine the proper maintenance of a glucometer, the phlebotomist should: