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During the night shift, a patient’s total parenteral nutrition infusion ran out, and the nurse discovered that there was no TPN solution on hand to continue the infusion. The nurse should prepare for what consequence of abruptly discontinuing a TPN infusion?

When evaluating a patient with a central venous catheter, the nurse observes that the insertion site is red and tender to touch and the patient’s temperature is 101.8° F. What should the nurse plan to do next?

Upon assessment a patient is found to have evidence of respiratory compromise from pulmonary edema. A nurse prepares to administer 40 mg of furosemide IV. How should the nurse administer the drug?

The prescriber has changed the patient’s medication regimen to include montelukast to treat asthma. The nurse will emphasize which point about this medication?

The nurse determines that a patient is experiencing the therapeutic effect of a continuous heparin drip if which of the following is noted?

Choose the best way to rewrite the following passage: My mother telephoned my sister and told her she had won a trip to Ireland.

Which statement by a patient during education by the nurse best demonstrates understanding of glucocorticoids?

Identify the error in the following sentence. Sometimes legislators votes for measures that do not appeal to them because their constituents, whom they have vowed to represent, have expressed a strong desire for such action.

Identify the error in the following sentence. The newspaper report yesterday that a couple who had been robbing banks on the East Coast was caught after the most extensive search in five years.

Identify the error in the following sentence. The newspaper report yesterday that a couple who had been robbing banks on the East Coast was caught after the most extensive search in five years.