A new graduate nurse has received report on a 54-year-old male client with a past medical history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, end-stage renal disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The client is currently off the unit receiving his hemodialysis (HD) treatment. Upon his return, the dialysis nurse reports to the new graduate nurse that mannitol was administered during his HD treatment today. The new graduate nurse correctly identifies this medication by associating it with which classification?

A 22-year-old patient visits the clinic for her annual Pap smear. She asks why she needs this test if she feels healthy. What is the nurse’s best response?

Which of the following statements about the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is true?

Triglycerides are made up of a _______ molecule and 3 fatty acid tails.

Prior to 2022 the Supreme Court had set forth four basic areas of personal behavior that fell under the right to privacy.  List those 4 areas and indicate which one the Court in 2022 ruled was incorrectly placed under the right to privacy (and hence is not behavior protected by that right).

Which of the following best presents the Supreme Court’s current stance with respect to affirmative action policies?

According to the Declaration of Independence a) what are all men endowed with by their Creator? b) why are governments instituted among men (what is government’s primary purpose)? c) from where do governments derive their just powers? d) when are the people justified in altering or abolishing the government?

Regarding the case of Obergefell v Hodges, answer the following questions. A) What, in general, was this case about? (the facts of the case) B) What was the Constitutional question in this case?  C) How did the Court rule, and why?

List the 4 provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibit discrimination.   Be sure to list the categories by which people may not be discriminated against under each of these 4 provisions, as well as the specific areas where that discrimination is prohibited.  

According to the Supreme Court’s current interpretation of the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the 8th amendment