Immediately at delivery, the infant's heat loss is predominantly from:
a. conduction.
b. convection.
c. evaporation.
d. radiation.
C
Because the infant is wet with amniotic fluid and blood, heat loss by evaporation occurs quickly.
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1. Altered financial support related to inadequate parental support. 2. Imbalanced nutrition: Less than body requirements related to familial financial difficulties. 3. Knowledge deficit related to sources of financial support. 4. Risk for injury related to imbalanced nutrition.
A patient in hypertensive emergency is being cared for in the ICU. The patient has become hypovolemic secondary to natriuresis. What is the nurse's most appropriate action?
A) Add sodium to the patient's IV fluid, as ordered. B) Administer a vasoconstrictor, as ordered. C) Promptly cease antihypertensive therapy. D) Administer normal saline IV, as ordered.
Which nursing action exemplifies presence?
1. Calling the patient's spiritual counselor 2. Praying with the patient 3. Ensuring that family can visit at any time 4. Communicating a willingness to care, to listen, and to be available to the patient
After six generations a cancer cell would produce how many cancer cells if chemotherapy is not used?
A. 12 B. 6 C. 64 D. 128