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You are caring for an elderly patient in an assisted living facility, who takes several medications for hypertension. The patient is complaining of fatigue and dizziness. Which vital signs are most important for you to monitor?  

The nurse is planning care for a group of patients. Which of the following activities may be delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?

When learning how to implement the nursing process into a plan of care for a client, the student nurse realizes that part of the purpose of the nursing process is to:

Three days after a colon resection, a client has abdominal pain. The nurse auscultates bowel sounds in all four quadrants. The orders are “up ad lib”. Which of the following nursing measures would assist the client in alleviating the cause of pain?

What should the nurse do while helping patients with values clarification and care decisions?

The nurse is caring for a patient with blindness. When reviewing the care plan, the nurse notes which of the following goals need to be modified?

Which of the following statements made by a client’s family is the most reliable for use in the evaluation of a client’s outcome?

Which of the following is not one of the five steps of the nursing process?

Which nursing intervention would be most helpful when communicating with an elderly patient?

[All solutions must start by writing an equation (or equations) from the equation sheet on your paper.  The solution must then follow a logical progression from the equation(s) on the equation sheet to the answer(s).] In a baseball game, a batter hits a home run — hurray! The batter hits the ball from an original height of approximately 1.5 meters, at an angle of approximately 62 degrees above the horizontal. The ball just barely makes it over a 10 meter tall fence that is 115 meters away from the batter. With what speed was the ball hit if it just barely reaches that point in space [hint: 115 meters away and 10 meters tall define the final position for the motion of the ball. . .]?