Which route of drug absorption has the greatest bioavailability?

A nurse is administering a medication to a 70-year-old patient who has decreased liver and kidney function. The nurse understands that these factors may affect the distribution of the drug in the patient’s body. Which of the following is the most likely consequence of these physiological changes in the distribution process?

The patient had surgery yesterday for hernia repair.  He was discharged home and has been prescribed two medications to be taken at the same time, a narcotic and an antihistamine.  The administration of these drugs together will produce which type of effect?

Match each of the following types of characters with the corresponding qualities that define them

A story with multiple particular settings can still have a general setting in which the events of the plot unfold. Classify each of the following descriptions of setting in Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Jewelry” by whether it describes a particular setting or general setting. Assume that the details from the story are accurate. The relevant information for answering the question can be found within the example alone; it is not necessary to know other information about the story.   “Sometimes, in the evening, when they were having a chat by the fire, she would rise and fetch the morocco box in which she kept her ‘stock’ (as M. Lantin called it)—would put it on the tea-table, and begin to examine the false jewelry with passionate delight” (par. 13).

Setting is the social environment in which characters live

Setting is the time period in which a story takes place

Match each of the following terms about narration and point of view to the corresponding definition.

Setting is the physical location(s) where events in a story occur

Examine the following brief excerpt from Susan Glaspell’s short story “Jury of Her Peers”: She looked at Mrs. Peters, and there was something in the other woman’s look that irritated her…. Then she looked again, and she wasn’t so sure; in fact, she hadn’t at any time been perfectly sure about Mrs. Peters. She had that shrinking manner, and yet her eyes looked as if they could see a long way into things. (par. 122) Based on this brief excerpt alone, which of the following—a first-person narrator, second-person narrator, or third-person narrator—tells this story?