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A female patient has recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The patient tells the nurse that she is frightened about the diagnosis and feels overwhelmed. The nurse responds, “Can you please tell me more about how you are feeling?”. Which communication technique did the nurse use?

A nurse on an orthopedic floor needs to begin teaching a 63-year-old patient about ambulating with a walker. Which action should the nurse take first?

The nurse is admitting a 62-year-old patient who works in a glass factory. The patient voices a concern regarding difficulty hearing the sermon during church on Sunday. After looking in his ears to determine if there is a build-up of cerumen, the nurse tells the patient that the hearing loss may be associated with his occupation or with aging. The nurse knows that hearing loss associated with the aging process is known as which of the following?

The nurse needs to assess a patient’s muscle movement and strength. The patient was admitted with a diagnosis of osteogenesis imperfecta. The nurse recalls that osteogenesis imperfecta is characterized by fractures and bone deformities. This condition is known as which of the following?

A nurse notices multiple lesions on the dorsum of a patient’s right foot that are 0.5cm in width, elevated, circumscribed and filled with serous fluid. What kind of primary lesions are these?

The nurse is admitting a patient with a Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) infection in the Stage IV pressure ulcer located on his sacrum. The nurse places the patient on:

A compiler translates ________ into ________

How does make know that a source code file needs to be recompiled?

Which operator redirects output to a file instead of to the display?

A Shell Script is: