Oral airways devices are only used for unresponsive patients without a _______ _____
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
gag reflex
An oral airway device is only used for unresponsive patients without an active gag reflex. Placement of an oral airway device may stimulate vomiting and possible aspiration or cause la-ryngospasm if inserted in a semiconscious patient.
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A nurse is performing a cardiac assessment on a client with heart failure. In assessing the client's apical pulse, the nurse notes the pulse to be displaced to the left. What conclusion can be drawn from this assessment?
A. This is a normal finding. B. The heart is hypertrophied. C. The left ventricle is contracted. D. The client is experiencing pulsus alternans.
Which of the following is true of early Christian deaconesses and how they became responsible for caring for poor and ill people?
a. The deacons relinquished this work to women (specifically, widows and virgins). b. The early church valued women. c. No one else would care for poor and ill people. d. The deaconesses had formal training to do the work.
Which number is the exponent in 56?
What will be an ideal response?