Endogenous cholesterol can be synthesized in the body by the ____________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
liver
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Your patient is 82 years old and has diabetes. Which assessment parameter is the least reliable sign indicating this patient's peripheral circulatory status?
A) Capillary refill B) Skin color C) Skin temperature D) Pulse strength
A term having the opposite meaning of caudal is ___________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Today is your day to obtain all blood draws in the pediatric unit. You collect all patient lab requisitions from the nurse's station and notice you have 15 patients to draw. As you look through the requisitions, you notice that the ages of your patients range from 3 weeks old to 14 years old. By checking the patients' ages, you realize that you will need to communicate with and identify each patient differently. When you enter your eighth patient's room, you notice that there are no parents or guardians in the room and the nurse is with another patient. You continue entering the room and proceed to identify the patient. The patient is a one-year-old girl who has an IV in her right arm and an oxygen mask on. You check your requisition and compare the patient information to the patient
armband. Everything matches up correctly. Should you or should you not collect the blood sample? Why or why not? A. Yes, it's the correct patient, correct room number, and correct name, and the parents are in the hospital but just in the waiting room. B. No, even though all information matches correctly, you still need verbal confirmation by a parent or by the nurse taking care of this patent. C. Yes, all information matches correctly on the requisition and armband. D. No, the nurse needs to watch you collect the blood sample but cannot at the moment.