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The client is hypotensive with a MAP of 55. The nurse alerts the provider and receives a bundle of orders to follow. Which order must be carried out first?

Identify a side/adverse effect of memantine (Namenda) used to treat Alzheimer’s disease? 

A multidisciplinary care conference has focused on the care needs of a 10-year-old Hispanic child with a history of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus type 1 recovering from diabetic ketoacidosis.  On what area should the team focus care to improve this child’s long-term prognosis?

A nurse prepares a list of home care instructions for the parents of a child who has a plaster cast applied to the left forearm. Choose the instructions that would be included on the list. (Select all that apply)

A client in the hospital is experiencing renal failure. The physician orders continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).  Which of the following is true regarding CRRT?

A patient admitted to the hospital for pneumonia relates use of non-prescribed opioids for the past two years; no opioids have been ordered for the patient while in the hospital. The nurse caring for the patient will anticipate which of the following signs and symptoms? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is planning care of a client who will undergo abdominal surgery. What evidence-based interventions to prevent postoperative ileus will the nurse employ after surgery? (Select all that apply.) 

The pre-operative nurse is preparing a client for surgery. When the client asks why the surgeon has written on the operative site with a marker, the nurse correctly informs the client:

In the cancer immunotherapy paper by Brentjens et al., what was the tumor associated antigen targeted by the immunotherapy and was it exclusive (only expressed on) to cancer cells? 

A patient tells a nurse, “Everyone would be better off if I wasn’t alive.” Which nursing diagnosis would be a priority based on this statement?