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Narcotic administration c. sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
should be administered
carefully in patients with
acute pancreatitis related
to potential for
a. respiratory depression.
b. narcotic dependency.
c. sphincter of Oddi
dysfunction.
d. allergic reaction.
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A patient is admitted to a. Cough
the hospital with left-sided b. Dyspnea
heart failure. Which clinical d. Crackles in lungs
manifestation would the
nurse expect the client to
exhibit? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Cough
b. Dyspnea
c. Bradypnea
d. Crackles in lungs
e. Peripheral edema
c. Early detection
Early detection of cancer, while it remains localized, is
Which offers the best associated with the best prognosis for a cure. The
prognosis for the cure of majority of patients with solid tumors are treated
cancer? surgically, which can be curative in some localized
a. Surgery cancers. Ionizing radiation is used for two principal
b. Radiation reasons: to kill tumor cells that are not resectable
c. Early detection because they are located in a vital or inaccessible
d. Chemotherapeutic area, and to kill tumor cells that may have escaped
agents the surgeon's knife and remain undetected in the local
area. Chemotherapeutic agents are not selective for
tumor cells, and a certain amount of normal cell death
also occurs.
A heart that has to pump c. Hypertrophy
harder in order to
effectively circulate blood
is likely to undergo which
type of cellular
adaptation?
a. Atrophy
b. Metaplasia
c. Hypertrophy
d. Hyperplasia
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A characteristic of benign b. Hesitancy
prostatic hypertrophy d. Weak urine flow
includes which of the e. Incomplete bladder emptying
following? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Urgency
b. Hesitancy
c. Low back pain
d. Weak urine flow
e. Incomplete bladder
emptying
What are the criteria for a. Simultaneous symmetric swelling of joints
diagnosing rheumatoid b. Soft-tissue swelling of at least three joints
arthritis? (Select all that c. Subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules
apply.) e. Morning stiffness in joints
a. Simultaneous symmetric
swelling of joints
b. Soft-tissue swelling of at
least three joints
c. Subcutaneous
rheumatoid nodules
d. Swelling of at least one
wrist joint
e. Morning stiffness in
joints
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Atrial fibrillation is best b. Disorganized and irregular atrial waves are
described as when accompanied by an irregular ventricular rate
a. The P wave precedes,
follows, or is buried in the - Atrial fibrillation is described as disorganized and
QRS complex irregular atrial waves accompanied by an irregular
b. Disorganized and ventricular rate.
irregular atrial waves are - Escape rhythms can present with a P wave that
accompanied by an precedes, follows, or is buried in the QRS complex.
irregular ventricular rate - Atrial flutter is typically manifested by a rapid atrial
c. An atrial rate of 240 to rate of 240 to 350 beats/min and a characteristic saw-
350 beats/min in a tooth pattern of atrial depolarizations.
sawtooth pattern of atrial - Premature atrial complexes (PAC) are characterized
depolarization is seen by P waves that occur earlier than normal, preceded
d. P waves occurs earlier by a P wave with a normal QRS configuration.
than normal, preceded by
a P wave with a normal
QRS configuration
Cardiac output is the d. Stroke volume and heart rate
product of both
a. Mean arterial pressure
(MAP) and systemic
vascular resistance (SVR)
b. Systemic vascular
resistance (SVR) and pulse
pressure
c. Pulse pressure and
mean arterial pressure
(MAP)
d. Stroke volume and
heart rate
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