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You decide to sell short 2,000 shares of LCB stock. The current share price is $82 and the initial margin requirement is 55%. Your broker imposes a maintenance margin requirement of 40%. a. Initially, what is the balance in the margin account? (3 points) b. After one year the share prices ends at $93.  What is your return? (4 points) c. With the share price at $93 after one year, do you receive a margin call?  Show me how you determine this. (4 points) d. If you get a margin call, how many dollars must you add to your account? Show your work.  (4 points)

Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl and Christian Practice: A Spiritual Warfare of Ego vs. Love. Today’s discussion, our final one for the semester, with Dr. Christopher Nelson focuses on the existence of slavery within a society that purports to fulfill Christian principles. While Harriet Jacobs astutely and consistently condemned the hypocritical Christianity practiced by her owners and the white community, who used religion to justify slavery and the brutalization that perpetuated it, she also acknowledged her and family members sincere religious convictions that enabled many enslaved people to maintain dignity and resilience amidst constant degradation. Today’s discourse will delve into this enduring phenomenon, as Jacob’s narrative illustrates –how Christian faith, and religion in general, can be employed to justify evil as readily as it can be harnessed to promote justice.NOTE: video begins at 30 seconds into the stream. 

Two options below. Answer only one, a OR b.    a. What are the two types of provider maldistribution and why does each occur?   b. Physician-Hospital joint ventures with health plans require clinical integration. What does that mean and what can it look like in practice?

The nurse is caring for a client with a hemothorax who has a chest tube attached to a closed-chest drainage system. The nurse notes 50 mL of dark red drainage in the collection chamber over the past hour. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?  

The nurse is reviewing laboratory data for a client admitted to the emergency department with chest pain that developed 3 hours ago. Which serum value requires immediate action by the nurse?  

The nurse is caring for a client who has an atrial pacemaker. Which of the following findings would the nurse expect to observe on the client’s electrocardiogram strip?  

A nurse cares for a client after cardiac catherization. During assessment of the groin site, the nurse notices that the dressing is saturated with blood and a small trickle leaks down the client’s leg. What should the nurse do first?

Which statement is true regarding the importance of surgical scrub counts during a surgical procedure?

You are the nurse caring for a client in septic shock. You know to closely monitor your client. What finding would you observe when the client’s condition is in its compensatory stage?     

The nurse is educating a nursing student regarding arterial lines. The nursing student demonstrates understanding of arterial lines with which statement(s)? Select all that apply.