What are the smallest living components in our body?
a. Cells
b. Organs
c. Electrons
d. Osmosis
ANS: A
Cells are considered to be the smallest living units of structure and function in our body.
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Which change would be helpful in assisting nurses to cope with moral distress?
1. Relieving the nurses from service on ethics committees 2. Having unlicensed personnel provide all direct patient care 3. Encouraging free discussion of ethical concerns 4. Increasing compensation for overtime hours worked
A patient with a head injury should not receive a narcotic agonist for which of the following reasons?
A. the patient will not be able to talk B. the drug makes the patient too hyperactive C. addiction is easy at this point D. the drug causes a confusing effect
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A. rate and extent to which an active drug enters the general circulation.\ B. movement of a solvent from an area of lower to higher solute concentration. C. movement of a solute from an area of higher to lower solvent concentration. D. speed with which the drug is excreted from the body by the renal system.