Karen continues to have an excessive blood loss and the perinatal nurse notifies the health care provider. Which medication would the nurse expect would be given first:

A) Methergine
B) Ergotrate
C) Carboprost
D) Oxytocin or pitocin


D

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After administering an antibiotic to the patient, the patient complains of feeling very ill. The nurse notes that the patient is scratching and has hives. The patient soon starts having difficulty breathing and his blood pressure drops

What is the nurse's assessment of the situation? a. The patient is having a mild allergic reaction and an antihistamine will make the patient feel better. b. The patient is having an anaphylactic reaction and epinephrine should be administered right away. c. The patient's infection is worsening and progressing to septic shock so blood cultures should be drawn. d. The patient has developed toxic shock syndrome and the antibiotic orders must be changed right away.

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A sub-total hysterectomy is when the: a. fallopian tubes and upper two-thirds of the uterusare removed without removal of the cervix

b. uterus and ovaries are removed. c. uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries are removed. d. uterus is removed through the vagina.

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A kindergarten rule states that if unacceptable behavior occurs, a child's personalized fish will be moved to the sea grass. Children who behave keep their fish out of the sea grass

The school nurse should identify this intervention as based on which principle of behavior therapy? A. Classical conditioning B. Conditioned response C. Positive reinforcement D. Negative reinforcement

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The nurse states that the development of an HIV vaccination has been unsuccessful due to the large size of the HIV genome, which has ______ base pairs and leads to the high mutation rate of the virus

Standard Text: Record your answer rounding to the nearest whole number. Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

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