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Based on information in the Activity 2 Introduction, which two patients have glucose readings in the diabetic range?  

What hormone would be elevated in the thyroidectomized group with TSH injections? (Note:  injections of a hormone result in elevated blood levels of that hormone as well as stimulating or inhibiting secretion of other hormones.)

The nurse is demonstrating the Z-track injection to a nursing student on a patient who is receiving iron dextran. Which statement by the student indicates understanding of the teaching?  

Which of the following items outlaws racial discrimination in public facilities and is considered the most far-reaching and comprehensive civil rights legislation in American history?

Which of the following items had a significant result of stimulating a national sense of activism that helped to spur on the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s?

Patient #2 is being treated for rheumatoid arthritis with prednisone. It would be considered [a} Cushing’s syndrome.

Activity 4:  [x] is the result of an adrenal tumor producing too much [y] and is [z] hypercortisolism.  [a] is caused by a pituitary tumor producing too much [b] and is [c] hypercortisolism.

Propylthiouracil (PTU) injections in the thyroidectomized rats [a] the rat’s BMR because [b].

    The point at which an individual is first aware of the feeling or sensation of pain is known as pain tolerance.

A terminal cancer patient returns to the unit with a morphine patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump. His daughter comes to you alarmed that her father may “overuse” the morphine and become addicted. What would be your best response?