The nurse is assessing a pregnant patient and notes a Chadwick sign. Which did the nurse inspect during the examination?
A red cervix
A blue-tinged cervix
A pink cervix
A dilated cervix
ANS: 2
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The nurse at the geneticist's office is caring for a 22-year-old patient who might have a mitochondrial mutation. Which patient statements are most consistent with this information?
Select all that apply. 1. "My dad was unable to hear normally after the age of 15." 2. "My mom and my sister are really little when compared to the rest of my family." 3. "My mom and my grandmother have trouble with seizures." 4. "My dad and my uncle both had heart attacks when they were in their 40s." 5. "I have some trouble walking and my muscles seem to be getting weaker."
The client tells you that he can stop several asthma attacks each day within a few minutes of their onset by using a short-acting beta-agonist inhaler and wants to know why he should bother to use regularly scheduled systemic drugs
What is your best response? A. "Frequent asthma attacks, even if they are halted relatively quickly, damage the bronchial tissues over time." B. "If asthma attacks are uncontrolled they lead to the eventual development of lung cancer and emphysema." C. "Using only short-acting beta agonists will lead to the development of drug resis-tance and then the drug won't work when you need it." D. "Beta-agonist inhaled drugs only treat the inflammatory aspects of asthma and do not help the inflammatory aspects of the disease."
Which medication should the nurse anticipate to be prescribed for a client with asthma and hypertension?
1. Metoprolol (Lopressor) 2. Propranolol (Inderal) 3. Sotalol (Betapace) 4. Nadolol (Corgard)