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A surfactant laxative, docusate sodium (Colace), has been ordered for a patient. The nurse checks the patient’s medical history and would be concerned if which condition is present?

A 75-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes takes glipizide (Glucotrol), a sulfonylurea. She asks the nurse when the best time would be to take this medication. What is the nurse’s best response?

A patient taking metformin (Glucophage), a biguanide, is scheduled for a radiographic scan with contrast dye. What instructions should you provide to this patient?

The nurse is teaching a group of patients about the management of diabetes. Which statement about basal dosing is correct?

What time should the patient take levothyroxine (Synthroid), a thyroid replacement hormone?

The insulin order reads, “Check blood glucose levels before meals and at bedtime. For every 5 mg/dL over 150, give 1 unit of regular Humulin insulin, subcutaneously.” The patient’s blood glucose level at 11:30 ., before lunch, was 205 mg/dL. In units, identify how much insulin will the nurse give.

The nurse is providing patient education about radioactive iodine to a patient going home. Which statement made by the patient best demonstrates an understanding of radioactive iodine?

Find sd.The differences between two sets of dependent data are -2, 2, -2, 2. Round to the nearest tenth.

Assume that the data has a normal distribution and the number of observations is greater than fifty. Find the critical z value used to test a null hypothesis.α = 0.09 for a right-tailed test.

Write the output produced by the following function when passed each of the following stacks: Assume that a stack prints in {bottom, …, top} order, and a queue displays in {front, …, back} order. void collectionMystery3(stack& stack) { queue queue; set set; while (!stack.empty()) { if (stack.top() % 2 == 0) { queue.push(stack.top()); stack.pop(); } else { set.insert(stack.top()); stack.pop(); } } for (int n : set) { stack.push(n); } while (!queue.empty()) { stack.push(queue.front()); queue.pop(); } cout