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A nurse is precepting a student nurse. The student nurse asks the nurse what hematocrit means.  The nurse knows to answer with which of the following:

A patient with esophageal cancer has a white blood cell count of 2000.  The nurse should question which of the following orders:

The theory that criminals are born as such, and that they are “throwbacks” to an earlier and more primitive evolutionary period, is known as ______.

A patient is diagnosed with lung cancer and prescribed antineoplastic medications.  The nurse notices that the patient’s last CBC shows hemoglobin, hematocrit, leukocytes and thrombocyte  levels are all lower than normal.  The nurse realizes that this is because the patient is experiencing which of the following side effects of antineoplastic medications:

A patient is taking a thiazide diuretic for hypertension. The nurse should be should to monitor which of the following electrolytes:

Plausible explanation of reality that includes testable propositions?

A nurse is caring for a patient that has idiopathic thrombocytopenia. The nurse knows that the priority nursing intervention for this patient is which of the following:

A patient with diabetes type II has a white blood cell count of 14,000.  The nurse should assess for which of the following: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A patient is taking a thiazide diuretic for hypertension. The nurse should be should to monitor which of the following electrolytes:

A patient’s CBC reads the following: Leukocytes  6000 Hemoglobin  10 Hematocrit 35% Thrombocytes  165,000 Which of the following signs and symptoms should the nurse expect to assess in this patient?