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A patient presents with recently developed breathing difficulties, chest pain that gets worse when breathing, and coughing up blood. What diagnosis would you expect based on these manifestation?

A child diagnosed with a serious fungal infection is prescribed amphotericin B parenterally. When considering possible adverse effects, the nurse should monitor the child’s level of which mineral?

Drinking salt water from the ocean is dangerous because it will result in severe constipation. 

Blood levels of which of the following white blood cells would be expected to rise following a parasitic worm infection?

Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV1) can be spread when a patient is not experiencing an outbreak.

Viruses can replicate on their own without host cells.

Use of alcohol and which antibiotic will result in severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea (known as disulfiram reaction).

A patient, currently prescribed epoetin alfa, is found to have a hemoglobin concentration of 13.2 g/dL. What course of action should be taken?

Infants are at risk of jaundice when the mother produces antibodies that cross the placenta before birth and these antibodies destroy fetal red blood cells. Which type of jaundice is this?

After studying about viruses, which information indicates the student has a good understanding of viruses? Viruses: