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The health care provider prescribes nitroglycerine to infuse at 90 mcg/min. The medication label reads “nitroglycerine 50 mg in 250 mL NS.”  Calculate the initial IV pump setting in mL/hr? (Round to the nearest whole number after calculations are complete.)

The rhythm strip below is the most common arrhythmia seen with mitral stenosis or after cardiac valve surgery.  Identify this rhythm, by looking at the top rhythm in lead II.    

The nurse cares for a client diagnosed with ST segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI). An alteplace (tPA) infusion has been running at 0.1 mg/kg/hr for 90 minutes.  The nurse notes no change in the ST segment and the client continues to report crushing chest pain.  Which action should the nurse take FIRST?

After administration of a prescribed medication, the nurse discovers that the incorrect dose of the medication was administered. Which is the first action the nurse should take?

The nurse prepares to administer vancomycin (Vancomycin) to a client. Which is the most likely reason for the administration of the medication?

If a drug has a half-life of 8 hours, how long before 25% of the drug is left in the blood stream?

Which statement best describes the movement of drugs throughout the body?

According to Jiang (2021), what is defined as a sudden and substantial increase in workload such as during unexpected catastrophic events?

You are tasked with enumerating the viral load of an unknown sample. You begin your investigation by serially diluting the sample resulting in the following dilutions: 10-2, 10-4, and 10-6. You spread 80µl of each dilution onto a separate nutrient agar plate and incubate for 48 hours. Upon examining the plates for the 10-2 and 10-6 dilutions only. You observe the following results:  10-2: 125 PFU  10-6: 90 PFU  Calculate the phage titer for these two agar plates. Report your final answer in the correct notation and with appropriate units.

The nurse teaches a client about transmural myocardial infarction.  Which statement by the client indicates understanding of the teaching?