A client with a history of peptic ulcer disease is admitted…

A client with a history of peptic ulcer disease is admitted to the hospital. Initial assessment reveals that the blood pressure is 96/60 mm Hg, with a heart rate of 120 bpm. The client just vomited coffee-ground–like material. Based on these data, what should the nurse do first?

Nurse Elisabet is in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) is…

Nurse Elisabet is in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) is monitoring a patient who has had a repair of an aortic aneurysm with graft surgery. Nurse Elisabet is unable to palpate the posterior tibial pulse of one leg that was palpable 15 minutes earlier. The most appropriate initial action for Nurse Elisabet is to: 

Explain why social, biological, and physical properties do n…

Explain why social, biological, and physical properties do not seem to establish the identity of an individual person. Be sure to explain this with a few different types of such properties (such as fingerprints, race, etc.). What type of properties, or what part of ourselves, does seem essential to our identity as an individual person?