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Which of the following is a common clinical manifestation of juvenile hypothyroidism?

Palliative care and hospice are two different entities with varying goals of care. The RN knows palliative care’s focus is? 

Your patient rings his call bell and reports that he had sudden onset of severe pain, numbness and coldness in his right leg from the knee down. The symptoms started about 1 hours ago but he did not want to bother you. However, the pain has not resolved. Your patient has a history of smoking and Type II diabetes. For the past few months he has gotten intermittent cramps to his right leg (intermittent claudication). He is currently in the hospital for treatment of pneumonia and dehydration. When you examine the patient, his right leg below the knee is cold, pale and pulseless. Capillary refill on the right leg is 10 seconds and to the left 2 seconds. The right popliteal pulse is palpable but not the dorsalis pedis or posterior tibialis. The patient’s vital signs are BP 136/88, P 96, R 18, T 98.2 (oral). Current medications include Avelox, ASA and Lovastatin. The patient has no allergies. When you call the Doctor, he reports his cell phone battery is almost dead. If you only get one sentence to let the Doctor know what is happening, what would you say:

You are working on a medical/surgical floor and developing a plan of care for a patient who is diagnosed with Guillain Barre syndrome. Which nursing diagnosis will take priority for the patient as the syndrome progresses?

A client is bitten on the leg by a black widow spider and needs immediate intervention by his friend who is a nurse. What is the nurse’s priority action?

Suppose that the equation for the line of best fit for some data is with . a) What is the correlation coefficient? [a] b) What is the predicted y value for an x value of 100? [b] c) What x value might give a ya value of 249? [c] d) In this situation doe, does the x-variable cause the y-variable? [d]

Which types of graphs (bar, circle, histogram, line plot, stem and leaf, box plot) could be made with the following data sets?  Justify your answers. a) the responses of 20 five-year-old children to the question “What is your favourite flavour of ice cream?” b) the heights of 20 five-year-old children  

A newborn is born with ambiguous genitalia, and the physician determines that further testing needs to be done to determine the gender of the newborn. What should the nurse do to help the parents?

The parents of a child who has just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes ask about exercise. The nurse should explain that:

The nurse caring for a client with jaundice present would assess for other findings frequently associated with this symptom. What other manifestation may be present in a patient who is experiencing jaundice?