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The nurse is explaining the different types of chemotherapy to a patient recently diagnosed with cancer.  Which statement would be incorrect for the nurse to tell the patient?

The family member of a terminally ill patient wants to donate a million dollars to the hospital if the patient can be cured.  In which stage of Kubler-Ross’s stages of loss is the family member demonstrating?

Write the name for Sn(SO4)2.  Remember that Sn forms several ions.

Calculate the mass (in ng) of 2.33 x 10^20 atoms of oxygen.

A patient asks the nurse what it means to have hospice care at home.  How should the nurse respond to the patient?  

A patient with MODS has been averaging about 300-325 mL of urine output each day.  Yesterday and today, the patient’s output has risen to 500 and 560 mL, respectively.  How should the nurse interpret this finding?

The outside temperature is 35 C. What is the temperature in K?

The nurse is evaluating laboratory values for a patient with a burn injury.  What results should the nurse expect for this patient?

The nurse is providing medications to increase a patient’s systemic vascular resistance.  At which point will the nurse know the patient has adequate tissue perfusion? Select all that apply.  

The parent of a 16-year-old tells the primary care pediatric nurse practitioner that the teen was recently caught smoking an electronic cigarette (e-cigarette). What will the nurse practitioner tell this parent?