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Select the structure that is not part of Ottawa Rule palpation

When caring for a patient who has received a general anesthetic, the circulating nurse notes red, raised wheals on the patient’s arms. Which action should the nurse take immediately?

You are working in a clinic that provides services for homeless people. The current local regulations prohibit providing a service that you believe is needed by your patients. You adhere to the regulations but at the same time are involved in influencing authorities to change the regulation. This action represents which stage of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?

Eclampsia is most accurately defined as:

Drowning is most accurately defined as:

Which statement, if made by a new circulating nurse, is appropriate? 

The nurse charts signs of infected phlebitis as:

A nurse educator discusses career options with a group of nursing students and describes the intraoperative activities of the perioperative nurses. The scrub nurse should? Select all that apply.

On entering the room, a nurse finds the patient sitting upright in bed with his upper torso resting on the over-bed table. The nurse assesses that this patient is experiencing respiratory distress. Contributing factors may include which of the following? Select all that apply.

The nurse is caring for a patient whose ABG results reveal the following: pH 7.56, PaCO2 32 mm Hg, HCO3 42 mEq/L, PaO2 90 mm Hg. Which condition will the nurse expect to see in the patient’s chart as the underlying cause of these results?