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A burn client is brought to the ER with 25% TBSA from a home fire.  The  nurse reviews the lab results and would expect to note which of the following as significant:

The client was found to have very high cholesterol levels.  The nurse develops a teaching plan for primary prevention. That plan encourages the client to reduce her intake of:

The critical care client is placed on IV glucocorticoids.  The nurse monitors the client for which one of the following side effects associated with this medication?  

A client has just been admitted with an electrolyte imbalance and a diagnosisof congestive heart failure (CHF). He also suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and is talking to himself, cowering in this room and getting out of bed and urinating on the floor.  The nurse can handle the voiding problem best by:

A fifty-year-old client is admitted for a diagnosis of dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysm. Which assessment data would the nurse recognized to support the diagnosis?

A 60-year-old client has a hematocrit of 55%.  For which of the following cardiovascular complications is he at greatest risk?  

Which of these clients in the neurologic ICU will be best to assign to an RN who has floated from the medical unit?

The nurse is adding 5 mg norepinephrine to 1000 mL D5W. After adding the norepinephrine what is the in mcg/mL?

What clinical symptom will the client most likely manifest if dysrhythmias are affecting the left ventricular function and significantly decreasing cardiac output?

The nurse is caring for a client in the intensive care unit. What assessment finding should prompt the nurse to inform the provider that the client may be exhibiting signs of acute kidney injury (AKI)?