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During your secondary assessment of a 19-year-old female with multiple traumas, you note bilateral humeral deformities and a deformity to the left midshaft femur. Her skin is diaphoretic, and her pulse is rapid and weak. Your partner has appropriately managed her airway and is maintaining manual stabilization of her head. The most appropriate treatment for this patient includes:

You run a silica gel TLC plate with ethyl acetate as your mobile phase. Your goal is to separate caffeine and aspirin, but the TLC plate was exposed to water in the humid Florida air. Which of the following is true?

The health care provider orders Lactated Ringer’s solution.  The nurse understands the client with which condition should not receive this solution.  

Which of the following information is primarily obtained from infrared spectroscopy?

SPME headspace analysis was performed on a blood sample to determine the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of a victim after death. The partial pressure of ethanol above the blood was determined to be 2.17×10-4 atm via GC analysis. What was the actual BAC? (KH = 2300 mol/Latm)

2. Certain proteins can be consistently conserved throughout many different groups of life.  For example, the homeodomain protein Pax6 has recently been shown to be a key regulator of eye development in both vertebrates and insects.  This demonstrates which of the following themes of life? 

A child returns to the pediatric unit from surgery with an IV infusing.  The postoperative orders do not indicate the rate of infusion.  Which nursing action is most appropriate for the nurse to take?

Which statement by the client indicates that discharge teaching for respiratory alkalosis is understood?

Which of the following information is primarily obtained from infrared spectroscopy?

What clinical manifestation would the nurse recognize as an indication of a fluid volume deficit in a preschool-age child?