A client who underwent a vagotomy has a high risk for developing stomach cancer. Which of the following advice would be useful?
A) Advise the client to change his dietary habits.
B) Encourage medications that reduce hydrochloric acid formation.
C) Encourage a liberal intake of fluid.
D) Advise the client to take antacids.
B
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a. moles. c. reddened areas b. striae. d. unilateral superficial vascular patterns.
With which disorder or organism is a killed vaccine used to trigger immunity?
a. Tetanus b. Influenza c. Hepatitis B d. Human papilloma virus
The nurse is explaining the difference between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics to a group of student nurses. To illustrate descriptive statistics, the nurses uses as an example:
1. A positive correlation between breastfeeding and infant weight gain. 2. The infant mortality rate in the state of Oklahoma. 3. A causal relationship between the number of sexual partners and sexually transmitted diseases. 4. The total number of spontaneous abortions in drug-abusing women as compared with non–drug-abusing women.
The nurse recognizes that when a client is receiving a lipid-soluble medication, higher concentrations will accumulate in which tissues?
1. Cardiac muscle 2. Liver 3. Bone marrow 4. Skeletal muscle