Upon chart review of a client in acute kidney injury, the nurse notes the following lab values: Potassium of 6.8 mEq/L, Sodium of 125 mEq/L, Hematocrit of 29%, and pH of 7.30. The nurse determines this client is most likely in which phase of acute kidney injury? Reference Range(s):  Potassium (3.5 mEq/L – 5.0 mEq/L) Sodium (135 mEq/L – 145 mEq/L) Hematocrit (35% – 45%) pH (7.35 – 7.45)

A nurse cares for a client with diabetes mellitus who is taking metformin (Glucophage) and has not yet been given his dose today. The client is scheduled for an intravenous urography with IV contrast in the morning.  Which action should the nurse take to prioritize the clients care so as not to interrupt his plan of care during this stay.  

What is the average urine output of a healthy adult for a 24hr period? Key word average meaning for most persons most of the time. 

The nurse is performing an assessment of body systems on a male nursing home client and realizes that an age-related change affecting the renal or urinary system with regards to medications there is: 

Which of the following is true in reference to what may pass through the placental barriers?  

 It is impossible for sperm to be functional (able to fertilize the egg) until after ________.

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is ________.  

Milk ejection (the letdown reflex) is stimulated by which of the following hormones associated with pregnancy?  

Prior to the let-down reflex, the mammary glands secrete a yellowish fluid called ________ that has less lactose than milk and almost no fat.  

The corpus luteum prevents loss of the implanted embryo through menstruation by secreting ________.