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Students who breach confidentiality may be subject to the current HIPAA laws, up to and including fines and imprisonment. 

A nurse in a provider’s office is reviewing the laboratory results of four clients who take digoxin. Which of the following clients is at risk for developing digoxin toxicity?

A patient at sports camp is complaining of itchy and watery eyes, coughing, and sneezing when outdoors. The patient’s chart states that he has an allergy to grasses. The nurse anticipates a prescription for an antihistamine due to which mechanism of action?

   If a student at the clinical site or on campus is investigated for breach of confidentiality and the investigation reveals intent to access unauthorized PHI, disciplinary action will be administered according to the severity of the infraction, which of the following are possible disciplinary actions to be enforced?

If your child is selling items for school, extracurricular activities, church, etc. it is okay to ask clinical site employees to support your child’s goal because it is for your child, not you. 

Before administering digoxin (Lanoxin), the nurse takes the adult patient’s apical pulse for 1 full minute. What additional nursing consideration(s) will be taken before administration of the medication? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is caring for a patient receiving clopidogrel (Plavix) to prevent blockage of coronary artery stents.  Which other drug on the patient’s MAR could reduce the antiplatelet effects of clopidogrel?

A patient is being prescribed a bisocodyl (Dulcolax).  What does the nurse explain is the mechanism of action of this laxative?

The ancient Greek term eudaimonia means “a flourishing life.”

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle claims two types of virtue exist: intellectual and practical.