When assessing an older patient's hydration status, the nurse expects which assessment finding to be the best indicator of fluid losses or gains?
A. Pretibial edema
B. A weight gain of 2 pounds in one day
C. Poor skin turgor
D. The patient's report of feeling thirsty
Ans: B. A weight gain of 2 pounds in one day
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a. 10 or fewer breaths per minute. b. easy respirations at a normal rate. c. shallow respirations. d. 24 or more breaths per minute.
When a mosquito or a fly carries an organism that infects another living organism, this mode of transmission is infection via:
1. a common vehicle. 2. direct excretion. 3. ingestion. 4. a vector.
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a. diabetes mellitus. b. fluid retention. c. intracranial hypotension. d. surgical hemorrhage.