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The health care provider has ordered levofloxacin (Levaquin) 250 mg in 50 mL to be infused over 1 hour. Micro-drip tubing (60 gtts/mL) is being used.The nurse should set the infusion pump at mL/hr.__ 1

While assessing an intubated patient, the nurse notes that the patient is pale, hypotensive, tachycardic, and has oliguria. The patient has a hemothorax on the right side and bilateral femur fractures. The chest tube has drained 350 mL over the previous 2 hours. What does the nurse know?

Which task can be delegated to nursing assistive personnel (NAP)?

A nurse is completing a client’s history and physical examination. Which of the following information should the nurse consider subjective data?

A nurse is caring for a group of clients on a medical-surgical unit. Which of the following situations requires that the nurse wear gloves? (Select all that apply.)

A clinic nurse is interviewing a client who will undergo diagnostic testing. The nurse should ask about a client’s potential allergies during which phase of the nursing process?

13. A nurse has received a health care provider’s prescription to transfer a client to the chair. This is the client’s first time out of bed during this hospitalization. How should the nurse proceed?

21. The nurse is observing an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) caring for a client who has hepatitis B. Which action, performed by the UP is not correct?   

5. A client has edema in the lower extremities and needs to be repositioned. The nurse should place this client in which of the following positions?

1. A bed-bound, elderly client has a pressure ulcer that looks like a shallow crater and involves the epidermis and dermis. The pressure ulcer is in which stage?