A hospital patient is scheduled to be given a dose of pain relief medication at 7:30 p.m. The nurses become involved with another patient and the first patient ends up waiting two hours for the pain medication. This is an example of what kind of error?

A) Omission error
B) Attention error
C) Wrong time error
D) Wrong dose error


C

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Which of the following trauma patients would be classified as "stable"?

A) Patient with facial burns and associated hoarseness and stridor B) Patient who is unconscious, with no ventilations and no pulse C) Patient with controlled bleeding from a laceration to the right forearm from a glass cut D) Patient with closed, bilateral femur fractures but adequate ventilations

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____ hemorrhage, also called intraparenchymal bleeding, is bleeding that occurs within the brain's soft tissues.

A. Extracerebral B. Noncerebral C. Subcerebral D. Intracerebral

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Think about any direct mail advertising you have received. Why have you looked through the advertisements? Or, why did you not look at them? Do you think this would be a successful way to market to someone like you? Why or why not?

What will be an ideal response?

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Reduce each fraction to lowest terms. 150/600 =

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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