A 72-year-old teacher comes to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation after being in the hospital for 6 weeks. She was treated for sepsis and respiratory failure and had to be on the ventilator for 3 weeks. You are completing your initial assessment and are evaluating her skin condition. On her sacrum there is full-thickness skin loss that is 5 cm in diameter, with damage to the subcutaneous tissue. The underlying muscle is not affected. You identify this as a pressure ulcer. What is the stage of this ulcer?

Once DNA fragments have been formed, which of the following can be used to separate the DNA fragments by size?

One of the worries about GMO’s is

A patient arrives for a physical assessment and is complaining of not feeling well. The nurse begins with a general survey and assessing vital signs. The nurse is concerned that the patient has orthostatic hypotension due to the patient complaining of

When evaluating the temperature of older adults, the nurse remembers which aspect about an older adult’s body temperature?

The nurse is taking a family history. Important diseases or problems to ask the patient about specifically include:

During the physical examination of a patient’s eyes, the nurse asks the patient to follow the tracing of a giant H with the eyes. What is the nurse assessing in this patient?

When documenting intimate partner violence and elder abuse, the nurse should include:

Which of the following screening tests has an expected finding of AC (air conduction) >BC (conduction) sound?

During an assessment, the nurse asks a patient with low back pain what has been used to try to alleviate the pain. The nurse is asking questions to determine which category of the mnemonic OLD CART?