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How should the nurse identify the rhythm shown in the diagram?

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?

A patient with a history of duodenal ulcer is admitted to the emergency department with reports of pain. The nurse should assess for this pain by palpating in which abdominal quadrant?

A nurse in an emergency department is caring for a client who has abdominal pain.

Nurses' Notes 

0800: Client reports abdominal pain that began the previous evening. Client is two weeks postoperative from a right knee replacement. Reports taking 3 to 4 hydrocodone tablets daily for postoperative pain. Has not had bowel movement in 4 days. Reports not drinking many fluids to avoid having "to get up and go to the bathroom so often because it hurts to walk."

0830: Client taken for abdominal x-ray. Partner reports that client has not been following physical therapist's exercise regimen of walking several times daily.

0915: Fecal mass of hard, dry stool removed digitally from client per provider's order.

1015: Provided teaching to client and partner about constipation and methods to avoid further impaction.

Diagnostic Results

0900:

Abdominal x-ray: Large amount of fecal material throughout the colon with rectal impaction. No evidence of small bowel obstruction.

A nurse is providing teaching to a client who has constipation. Which information should the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse is caring for a client who has contact dermatitis of the neck and upper chest. Which assessment data is an expected finding?

A nurse is caring for a client who has a body mass index (BMI) of 26. The nurse should place the client in which BMI category?

A nurse is caring for a postoperative client. The nurse should base the client's pain management interventions primarily on which methods of determining the intensity of the client's pain?

How should the nurse interpret the rhythm depicted in the image?

A nurse is performing a pain assessment for an alert client. Which measure should the nurse recognize as the most reliable indicator of pain?

A nurse is teaching about the risk factors of developing a stroke with a group of older adult clients. Which nonmodifiable risk factors should the nurse include in the teaching?

A nurse is assessing a client's cranial nerves. Which method should the nurse use to assess cranial nerve I?