Three days after a colon resection, a client has abdominal pain. The nurse auscultates bowel sounds in all four quadrants. The orders are “up ad lib”. Which of the following nursing measures would assist the client in alleviating the cause of pain?

What should the nurse do while helping patients with values clarification and care decisions?

The nurse is caring for a patient with blindness. When reviewing the care plan, the nurse notes which of the following goals need to be modified?

Which nursing intervention would be most helpful when communicating with an elderly patient?

Which of the following statements made by a client’s family is the most reliable for use in the evaluation of a client’s outcome?

Which of the following is not one of the five steps of the nursing process?

In a baseball game, a batter hits a home run — hurray! The batter hits the ball from an original height of approximately 1.5 meters, at an angle of approximately 62 degrees above the horizontal. The ball just barely makes it over a 10 meter tall fence that is 115 meters away from the batter. With what speed was the ball hit if it just barely reaches that point in space ?

You’re playing darts with your friends, and you throw the dart level straight across at a speed of 10 m/s, directly towards the bull’s eye . However, you end up missing — after about 0.22 seconds, the dart hits the dartboard quite a bit below the center of the target.  a.) How far below the bull’s eye did the dart hit the dartboard? b.) How far away from the dartboard were you standing? c.) How fast was the dart moving when it hit the board?  

You like running, and are beginning to train for a marathon. You start running from your house, first by running 3.3 kilometers North, followed by 2.6 kilometers East, then 5.9 kilometers South, and then finally 2.6 kilometers West. Your neighbor is a good friend and drone enthusiast and, at the conclusion of your run, flies a drone from your house to your final location for a celebratory photo.   a) Draw a coordinate system and annotate your position at the end of each segment of your run. b) How far did you run, in total? c) What is your final displacement relative to your house and your coordinate system? d) What is the minimum distance the neighbor’s drone would have to fly if it wanted to reach you from your house? e) If the drone made the flight in five minutes, what would its average velocity need to be?

On a velocity versus time graph, you can tell when an object is decelerating, because __________________.