The nurse is assessing factors that may affect the absorption of a drug that the nurse will soon administer. What factor should the nurse prioritize?

In response to the client’s question about how to know whether drugs are safe, the nurse explains that all medications undergo rigorous scientific testing controlled by what organization?

A nurse is instructing a pregnant client concerning the potential risk to her fetus from a pregnancy category D drug. What should the nurse inform the client?

Which hormone is responsible for gallbladder contraction and the relaxation of the hepatopancreatic sphincter of Oddi?

A 23 year old male is stabbed in the left axillary region between the 5th and 6th ribs.  The knife eventually punctured the lung causing a pneumothorax.  After the hypodermis, what is the correct order of tissues through which the knife went?

After a bad hockey check, a 28 year old male presents to his primary care physician with his right pupil constricted, his right eyelid drooping, and the inability to sweat on the right side of his face.  Which division of the autonomic nervous system was injured?

57 year old male, with uncontrolled diabetes, presents to his primary care physician with a sense of fullness and vomiting over the past few weeks.  How might the diabetes be directly contributing to the malfunction of the GI tract?

A patient is diagnosed with hypocalcemia.  What would you expect her phosphate levels to look like?

A 24 year old patient suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum (excessive vomiting during pregnancy).  Which electrolyte disturbance would you expect to see?

A head-on collision results in a 47 year old female being pinned in a car.  This crush injury results in multiple vertebral column fractures and spinal cord swelling.  As a result of the spinal cord swelling, which structure is compressed between the dura and the vertebral bodies?