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A nurse is assessing a client's peripheral circulation. In which of the following locations should the nurse palpate to assess the posterior tibial pulse? (Selectable areas, or "Hot Spots," are outlined in the artwork below. Select only the outlined area that corresponds to your answer.)

A nurse is caring for a client who recently had a stroke. Which alteration in neurologic function should the nurse expect?

A client has dysfunction of the cochlear division of the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII). The nurse should determine that the client is adequately adapting to this problem if he or she states a plan to obtain which item?

A nurse is completing a client's history and physical examination. Which information should the nurse consider subjective data?

How should the nurse interpret the rhythm shown on the electrocardiogram strip shown in the diagram?

A nurse is precepting a nursing student. The nurse explains to the nursing student how you would perform the graphesthesia test on a client. What is the correct way to perform this test?

 A nurse in an emergency department (ED) is admitting a client.

Vital Signs 

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Temperature 38.6° C (101.5° F)

Heart rate 106/min

Respiratory rate 26/min

Blood pressure 110/54 mm Hg

Oxygen saturation 94% on room air

Nurses Notes 

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Client presents to ED with report of shortness of breath for 3 days, with headache, chills, fever, sore throat, and cough.

Oriented to person, place, and time. Appears lethargic, difficulty answering questioning due to shortness of breath. Follows simple commands, moves all extremities with weakness.

Client's face is flushed, sinus tachycardia, rate of 106/min, $152 heart sounds heard on auscultation. Pulses palpable.

Breath sounds with crackles to right lower lobe, tachypnea, rate of 26/min. Tactile fremitus and decreased lung expansion noted upon assessment. Frequent productive cough with thick yellow sputum. Client denies hemoptysis. Unable to lie down, states they are "more comfortable sitting up."

Bowel sounds active x 4 quadrants. Denies diarrhea, last bowel movement yesterday. States "no appetite since I've been sick."

Reports decreased urination in the past day.

Client reports they have not had a pneumococcal vaccine. States, "1 Just hate needles."

Diagnostic Results

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Chest x-ray.

Areas of increased density and white infiltrates to lower right lobe.

Select 3 objective findings in the client's medical record that may be indicative of pneumonia.

A nurse is caring for a client and observes that the client's urine is cloudy, has an unpleasant odor, and contains hematuria. The nurse should recognize that these findings are associated with which urinary problem?

A nurse is assessing a client's peripheral circulation. In which of the following locations should the nurse palpate to assess the posterior tibial pulse? (Selectable areas, or "Hot Spots," are outlined in the artwork below. Select only the outlined area that corresponds to your answer.)

The nurse reviews the arterial blood gas results of a client and notes the following:  

pH 7.45, [normal range: 7.35-7.45]  

Paco2 of 30 mm Hg (30 mmol/L), [normal range: 35-45]  

HCO3- of 20 mEq/L (20 mmol/L), [normal range: 22-26]  

Which condition would the nurse analyze these results to indicate?

Linea nigra is commonly found on the abdomens of: