Part of your job is to maintain patient and resident units. Which of the following means that you are doing your job?
a. You keep the call light, over-bed table, and bedside stand within each person's reach.
b. You make sure that each person can reach the phone and light controls at least twice per day.
c. You make sure that each person knows where the toilet paper is stored should he need extra.
d. You adjust the room temperature for your comfort.
A
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The nurse's response would include the information that the stent: 1. Will keep the ductus arteriosus open and oxygenated and unoxygenated blood mixed. 2. Is used to close the ductus arteriosus to prevent mixing of arterial and venous blood. 3. Will redirect the blood so that blood bypasses the right ventricle. 4. Connects the ventricle to the atrium.
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A) Shortness of breath B) Painful breathing C) Rapid breathing D) Inability to breathe
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a. 34% b. 50% c. 68% d. 95%