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Scenario: You are responding to a call for a 60-year-old male with a history of heart disease who is experiencing chest pain. Upon your arrival on scene, you find the patient in moderate distress, diaphoretic, and with a blood pressure of 90/60 mmHg. The patient is alert and states he has taken his prescribed nitroglycerin but still has persistent pain. Enroute to the hospital: You decide to administer aspirin (chewable 325 mg) and prepare for potential nitroglycerin administration, depending on his vital signs. You also consider using oxygen to assist with his breathing. On Scene: You assess the patient further and note a heart rate of 110 bpm and an oxygen saturation of 92%. You have protocols that allow you to administer nitroglycerin if the blood pressure is above 100 mmHg. What vital sign change would most concern you before administering nitroglycerin? 

Scenario:You are responding to a call for a 60-year-old male with a history of heart disease who is experiencing chest pain. Upon your arrival on scene, you find the patient in moderate distress, diaphoretic, and with a blood pressure of 90/60 mmHg. The patient is alert and states he has taken his prescribed nitroglycerin but still has persistent pain.Enroute to the hospital:You decide to administer aspirin (chewable 325 mg) and prepare for potential nitroglycerin administration, depending on his vital signs. You also consider using oxygen to assist with his breathing.If the patient’s condition worsens enroute, what should be your immediate action?

The nurse is assessing a client with a history of rheumatoid arthritis who has just returned from the x-ray department after a CT of the spine. While assisting the client from the wheelchair to the bed, the client states, “I have a terrible pain and tingling going down my arm, and I can’t turn my neck.” What is the nurse’s next action after assessing the client?

Your esmolol drip is running at 15 mL/hour. Your patient weighs 65 kg. The IV contains 2500 mg esmolol in 250 mL fluid. Your IV is running at how many mcg/kg/min?_____________mcg/kg/min (Round to the nearest tenth.) 

For a person to be immunocompetent, which processes need to be functional and interact appropriately with each other?(Select all that apply.)

Which type of immunoglobulin (antibody) is produced during an anaphylactic type I hypersensitivity reaction ?

Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas are differentiated by the presence of what cellular characteristic?

A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a client with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who is taking prednisone.  Which of the following statements indicates the client  understanding of the teaching provided by the nurse?

A nurse is teaching a group of nursing students about the different types of immunity. Which statement by a student indicates a need for further teaching?

A client with AIDS is experiencing weight loss and diarrhea. The nurse understands that these symptoms may indicate which opportunistic infection?