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The RN and nursing assistive personnel (NAP) are caring for six patients on the pulmonary unit. Which of the following tasks would be most appropriate for the nurse to delegate to the NAP?

Mr. Johnson is a patient who was admitted to the hospital with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He has smoked cigarettes for 33 years and is currently trying to quit his two packs-a-day habit. Upon admission to the hospital, Marsha, a registered nurse is taking his vital signs and is obtaining a pulse oximetry reading. Mr. Johnson asks Marsha what this reading tells her. What is Marsha’s best answer?

A patient has been admitted to the cardiac unit with the diagnosis of bradycardia. The patient states “I am confused about what the doctor said is wrong with me, he said my pacemaker is not working. I don’t have a pacemaker.” What is the nurse’s best response?

General guidelines for palpating peripheral pulses include

A patient in the intensive care unit has a nasogastric tube and is also receiving a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). The nurse recognizes that the purpose of the PPI is which effect?

What findings does the nurse expect when assessing the cardiovascular system of a healthy adult? (Select all that apply.)

The identification of nursing diagnoses allows the nurse to:

When giving CPR, compressions are causing the heart to pump blood into and out of the lungs to the body’s organs. This movement of oxygenated blood is best described as which of the following?

One characteristic of adaptive immunity is specificity. This means that ________.

One characteristic of adaptive immunity is specificity. This means that ________.