Pruritus accompanying a rash may be caused by:
A) Allergic reactions to environmental exposure.
B) Medications.
C) Renal failure.
D) All of the above.
D
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The clinic nurse is caring for a patient who has been diagnosed with emphysema and who has just had a pulmonary function test (PFT) ordered. The patient asks, "What exactly is this test for?" What would be the nurse's best response?
A) "A PFT measures how much air moves in and out of your lungs when you breathe." B) "A PFT measures how much energy you get from the oxygen you breathe." C) "A PFT measures how elastic your lungs are." D) "A PFT measures whether oxygen and carbon dioxide move between your lungs and your blood."
Results of a patient's preliminary assessment prompted an examination of the patient's carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels, which have come back positive. What is the nurse's most appropriate response to this finding?
A) Perform a focused abdominal assessment. B) Prepare to meet the patient's psychosocial needs. C) Liaise with the nurse practitioner to perform an anorectal examination. D) Encourage the patient to adhere to recommended screening protocols.
A client with fistula secondary to Crohn's disease is being treated with a course of glucocor-ticoids. For which complication of this treatment is the client at risk?
A. Constipation B. Hypoglycemia C. Dyspnea D. Sepsis
The appropriate theoretical distribution for constructing confidence intervals around an odds ratio is:
a. A sampling distribution of the mean b. A normal distribution c. A t distribution d. A binomial distribution