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The nurse is admitting a client experiencing chest discomfort and shortness of breath, who has a history of stroke. When the nurse documents the nursing diagnosis Risk for Impaired Mobility related to history of stroke, the nurse knows which to be the risk factor?

If you are the simulation therapist and you are administering an iodinated contrast agent and your patient starts to experience hypotension with bradycardia. What statement best describes what is happening to your patient? 

Your patient is being treated for prostate cancer.  The patient is starting their 4th week of treatment.  The patient is being treated on a Varian 2100 CD accelerator (calculated SSD 100cm).  He is receiving IMRT treatments to 7 different ports.  The prescription of the initial dose is 45 Gy to the tumor bed at 1.8Gy per fraction.  The patient will also be receiving a boost of 32.4 Gy to the tumor bed at 1.8 Gy per fraction.  The prostate is located 9.6 cm posterior to the anterior surface of the patient and 18.7 cm from the patient’s right side.  The patient’s AP/PA separation is 33.7 cm and the lateral separation is 37.4 cm. What is the patient’s total dose?  

A client has fallen while getting out of the shower but did not get injured. How should the incident be documented?

The nurse knows that one person manual lifting should only be done in which situation?

An increase in the riskiness of corporate bonds will ________ the price of corporate bonds and ________ the price of Treasury bonds, everything else held constant.

In the Mugwump Corporation, cash receipts from customers were $138,000, cash payments for operating expenses were $102,000, and one-third of the company’s $6,300 income taxes were paid during the year. Net cash provided by operating activities is:

What is the equivalent square for a treatment portal, being treated SAD on a linear accelerator calibrated to 100 SAD,  where the secondary collimator is set after simulation to a portal size of 7.8 cm x 8.6 cm. 

Assertive communication is an appropriate approach for nurses to use in the clinical area.  Which of the following would be an example of this type of communication technique when a nurse is addressing a physician? 

The additional incentive that the purchaser of a Treasury security requires to buy a long-term security rather than a short-term security is called the