The nurse is concerned that a patient's arterial blood carbon dioxide level is increasing because this can contribute to the development of which electrolyte imbalance?
1. Hyperkalemia
2. Hypokalemia
3. Hypercalcemia
4. Hypocalcemia
Answer: 1
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The nurse teaching a patient describes the effect of a vasectomy on fertilization by saying "A man who has had a vasectomy becomes functionally sterile because the sperm:
1. "Are no longer being produced.". 2. "Are no longer motile and fertile.". 3. "Sit in the testes where they are formed." 4. "Cannot reach the outside of the body.".