The nurse begins the assessment process with:
A) Review of systems.
B) Health history.
C) Physical exam.
D) Review of medical records.
B
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The family reports that despite the child's previously reported controlled seizures, the child has been seizing two or three times a day. The nurse would anticipate that the: a. child's medication will be changed. b. child will be admitted to the hospital. c. child will be placed on nasogastric medications. d. child's phenytoin level will be drawn.
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