People with bulimia often binge eat, then ____________________, or vomit to avoid gaining weight.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
purge
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The individual seen in the emergency department who should be considered at highest risk for
completing suicide is a. A single white man, aged 79 years, with cancer of the prostate. b. A single black female church member, aged 38 years, with fibrocystic breast disease. c. A 60-year-old married Hispanic man with numerous grandchildren who has type II diabetes. d. An adolescent white girl with superior athletic and academic skills who has asthma.
Which of these approaches would be most appropriate for the nurse to take when preparing a patient with a Swan-Ganz catheter for a hemodynamic assessment?
1. placing the patient in Trendelenburg position prior to obtaining measurements 2. injecting cardiac output fluid at the beginning of inspiration 3. zeroing the transducer at the phlebostatic axis 4. warming cardiac output injectate fluid to body temperature
When a nursing student goes to the nursing skills lab, the best utilization of that resource would be as a place to
a. read the textbook. b. discuss personal problems with another student. c. practice a difficult dressing change procedure. d. take a coffee break.
A powerful tool in which neither subject or healthcare provider knows to which group the individual is assigned is known as a(n) _____ study
a. double-blind b. open-label c. crossover d. single-blind