The nurse is performing a head-to-toe assessment on a patient admitted with abdominal pain. The nurse inspects the abdomen and the abdominal contour is round, distended, with no masses or lesions present. The patient reports that their last bowel movement was one hour ago, and the stool was loose. The patient also reports that the pain is located below the umbilicus and is sharp in quality. After inspection of the abdomen, the nurse will:

The nurse enters the room of a diabetic patient. It is 11:30 am. The patient is diaphoretic, tachycardic, anxious, states she is hungry, and doesn’t remember where she is. This patient is most likely showing signs of what?

A nurse is assessing a client who is experiencing grief. The nurse should identify which of the following findings as an indication that the client has developed clinical depression?

A patient presents with a history of a right ventricular myocardial infarction and has right sided heart failure.  The nurse would assess for which sign of impaired right ventricular function?

You have an order to give Amoxicillin that reads: 20mg/kg/day, divided into three equal doses. Your child weighs 28lbs, and the label on the bottle reads: 125mg/5mL. How many mL will you give for each dose? If rounding is required, round to the 10th place.  Enter a numeric value only.

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The patient is to receive 1 L of Lactated Ringer’s IV over 4.5 hrs. If the gtt factor is 10, what rate in gtts/min will you regulate the IV.  Enter a numeric value only.  If rounding is required. round to the 10th.  

You have an order for 1000ml of normal saline to be infused at 167ml/hr.  Using an IV administration set which delivers 12gtts /ml, how many gtts/min. will you regulate the infusion?   Enter a numeric value only.

Each liter of I.V. fluid has 15mEq KCL added. If the I.V. infusion rate is 120mL/hr, how many mEq of KCL will be received per day? If rounding is required, round to the 100th place.  Enter a numeric value only.

Ordered is Nafcillin 9mg per kg body weight IM bid for a patient weighing 212lbs.  Available is Nafcillin 1gm/7.5ml. How many ml will you administer per dose?  If rounding is required, round to the 10th.  Enter a numeric value only.