You are conducting a seminar for a senior citizen's group in your community about several conditions that could affect the aging population. One of the attendees asks, "How does a person know if they have osteoporosis?" You reply that the first indication could be
A. The occurrence of spontaneous bone fractures
B. Decrease in range of motion in the hip and knee joints
C. Hypocalcemia
D. Bone pain that lasts for three weeks and is unrelieved by aspirin
Answer: A. The occurrence of spontaneous bone fractures
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When you answer a patient's call signal promptly, you are meeting which of the patient's human needs?
A. Physiological needs B. Safety and security needs C. Self-actualization needs D. Belonging and love needs
The nurse is assessing a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome. An expected assessment is:
a. cardiac output of 10 L/min and low systemic vascular resistance. b. PAOP of 10 mm Hg and PaO2 of 55. c. PAOP of 20 mm Hg and cardiac output of 3 L/min. d. PAOP of 5 mm Hg and high systemic vascular resistance.
Which of the following factors has not been implicated in the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease?
1. Autoimmune reaction to bacterial flora in the bowel 2. Environmental factors 3. Genetic susceptibility 4. Reactivation of a viral infection