What do most state laws say about the permissibility of a nurse practitioner prescribing a medication for oneself?

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have devised a classification system for heart failure that can be used to direct treatment. Patients with past or current symptoms and underlying structural disease are classified as stage:

The difference between systolic and diastolic pressure is:

CVP is a good reflect of _________? What is normal CVP? __________ What is normal PAP? __________ A patient with a PE would have a low PAP pressure.   T or F

Anatomically, where should a pulmonary artery catheter be placed to measure PCWP?

Which patient would most likely be prescribed sodium nitroprusside ?

Two methods are compared for a method validation.  There are 20 concordant pairs of results and 5 discordant pairs of results between the two methods.  What is the test-retest reliability? (C-D)/(C+D)  (20-5)/(20+5) = 

The purpose of linear regression is to: 

Control values are running outside the acceptable range of a stable analyzer for the last 5 days.  The scientist in charge has troubleshooted possible causes and has discovered that the pipette used in the reconstitution of the controls needs calibration.  This represents an error in which phase of laboratory analysis?

An instrument has a probe error in the middle of running QC.  Both the low and high controls are outside acceptable limits.  This represents an error in which phase of laboratory analysis?