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What is meant by the amino acid sequence of a protein?  

What belongs in blank _50_?

What belongs in blank _80_?

Hypovolemic shock may be caused by which of the following: a. overwhelming infection.b. severe allergic reaction.c. excess fluid loss.d. heart failure.

A nurse tells you that a client is very demanding and should be made to wait beyond her time limit for an analgesic.  Your best response to this statement is that making a client wait: a. will help prevent addiction to the drug.b. creates anxiety which in turn increases pain.c. may increase her blood pressure to dangerous levels.d. may help wean her off of the narcotic.

Your client is having incisional pain on her second postoperative day. She was medicated an hour ago.  Which of the following noninvasive nursing interventions will best aid in decreasing her pain at this time? a. Change her position and give her a backrub.b. Assist her in range-of-motion exercises.c. Give her an injection of hydromorphone (Demerol) as ordered.d. Explain to her that she has just been medicated and to try to relax.

The nurse may expect that a client in anaphylactic shock will receive epinephrine and:“Select All that Apply.” a. antihistamine.b. corticosteroids.c. oxygen.d. antibiotics.e. anticoagulants    

Your client is developing symptoms of respiratory alkalosis related to an anxiety attack. Which nursing intervention is appropriate? a. make sure his oxygen is being administered as ordered.b. have him breathe into a paper bag.c. place him in a semi-Fowler’s position.d. administer sodium bicarbonate IV stat.

Which laboratory values would the nurse indicate that a patient is in acidosis? “Select All that Apply.” a. 7.1 pHb. 7.67 pHc. 7.32 pHd. 7.80 pHe. 7.37 pH

The physician ordered Sporanox (itraconazole) 5 mg/kg q day PO. Pt weighs 47 lbs. How many mg will you administer? a. 106.8 mgb. 0.1 mgc. 100 mgd. 107 mg