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An elderly white woman is hit by a bus and severly injured. Accident investigators are informed that she lives in an abandoned wearhouse, where few personal effects include several wine bottles and an expired driver’s license indicating she is 72 years old. At the hospital, she is found to be severly anemic. List all the factors you can think of that may contribute to her anemia. 

The kidneys are highly vascular organs. Approximately how much of the entire circulating blood volume is processed by the kidneys at any one time?

A client is crying after undergoing dilation and curettage after an early miscarriage (spontaneous abortion). Which response would the nurse give?

The infundibulum is a ___________.

A 26-year-old primigravida experiencing severe abdominal pain is brought to the emergency department by ambulance with a suspected ruptured tubal pregnancy. Which is the priority nursing action?

The extraocular muscles work in yoked pairs, with ocular movements generated by an increase in the tone of one set of muscles and a decrease in the tone of the antagonistic muscles. Of the two muscle types, how many are represented in each eye?

Which foods would the nurse counsel the client at 14 weeks’ gestation to avoid during pregnancy? Select all that apply. One, some, or all responses may be correct.

A 46-year-old woman with a second early-stage primary cancer in her left breast has elected to have a bilateral mastectomy with saline implants. She has requested that the surgeon also revise a small unsightly scar on her right knee and pierce her ears. While the patient’s breast tumor could be treated with an excisional biopsy, she has decided to have a mastectomy of both breasts, which is considered an appropriate preemptive (preventative) surgery for a woman of her age with two primary cancers of the breast. The saline implant insertion surgery is considered a _______________ procedure, the scar revision is considered a ___________ procedure, and the ear-piercing is considered a _______________ procedure.

While a client is being interviewed on her first prenatal visit she states that she has a 4-year-old son who was born at 41 weeks’ gestation and a 3-year-old daughter who was born at 35 weeks’ gestation. The client lost one pregnancy at 9 weeks and another at 18 weeks. Using the GTPAL system, how would you record this information?

Glucagon increases blood glucose concentration and insulin decreases it. This is an example of _____.