A patient is scheduled to receive a liver for transplantation from a person who has died. The nurse anticipates that the donor has which characteristic?
1. Died of natural causes
2. Experienced cardiac death
3. Died in an automobile accident
4. Experienced brain death
Answer: 4
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A client is hospitalized for psychotic symptoms including auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions. Based on an understanding of neurobiology, the nurse knows the psychotic symptoms arise from disruptions in which neurotransmitter?
1. Norepinephrine 2. Serotonin 3. Acetylcholine 4. Dopamine
A critically ill newborn is the child of two parents who are Catholic. What action should the nurse take regarding the baptism of this infant?
1. Baptize the baby. 2. Ask the parents for direction in whom they want to baptize the baby. 3. Ask the hospital chaplain to baptize the baby. 4. Ask the doctor to baptize the baby.
Match the assessment technique to the data that should be collected. There may be more than one technique used to collect the data
1) Auscultation 2) Inspection 3) Palpation 4) Percussion ____ 1. Skin pink, warm, and dry ____ 2. Lung sounds clear ____ 3. Abdomen is tympanic ____ 4. Abdomen soft and nontender
An intravenous pyelogram should not be performed if serum creatinine is:
A. Less than 1.5 B. Greater than 1.0 C. Greater than 1.6 D. Less than 1.0