Blog

A potential donor is angry at the personal nature of the questions about HIV risk factors that he is required to answer at a blood collection center and states that simple blood testing should suffice. How can the nurse at the center best respond?

A patient recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis asks the nurse practitioner about the disease process. The nurse practitioner knows that:

The globulins that make up part of the plasma of the blood have three distinct purposes. What are the gamma globulins?

A patient recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis asks the nurse practitioner about the disease process. The nurse practitioner knows that:

A patient with diabetes mellitus has just undergone a right, below-the-knee amputation following gangrene infection. A few days post-op, the patient confides in the nurse that he still feels his right foot. Knowing the pathophysiologic principles behind this, the nurse can

Reviewing pathology for an exam on pulmonary vasculature, the nursing student states that blood enters the right side of the heart via the vena cavae, then to the right atrium, right ventricle, and then which vessel carries the deoxygenated blood into the pulmonary system?

What is the best response when asked, “What’s the difference between plasma and serum in the blood?” Plasma contains…

What is the best response when asked, “What’s the difference between plasma and serum in the blood?” Plasma contains…

Which of the following data would a clinician consider as most indicative of acute renal failure?

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects many systems in the body. What is the number one hematologic disorder caused by CKD?