A 26-year-old sports store manager comes to your clinic, complaining of severe right-sided abdominal pain for 12 hours. He began having a stomachache yesterday, with a decreased appetite, but today the pain seems to be just on the lower right side. He has had some nausea and vomiting but no constipation or diarrhea. His last bowel movement was last night and was normal. He has had no fever or chills. He denies any recent illnesses or injuries. His past medical history is unremarkable. He is engaged. He denies any tobacco or drug use and drinks four to six beers per week. His mother has breast cancer and his father has coronary artery disease. On examination he appears ill and is lying on his right side. His temperature is 100.4 and his heart rate is 110. His bowel sounds are decreased and he has rebound and involuntary guarding, one third of the way between the anterior superior iliac spine and the umbilicus in the right lower quadrant. His rectal, inguinal, prostate, penile, and testicular examinations are normal.What is the most likely cause of his pain?

Jason is a 41-year-old electrician who presents to the clinic for evaluation of shortness of breath. The shortness of breath occurs with exertion and improves with rest. It has been going on for several months and initially occurred only a couple of times a day with strenuous exertion; however, it has started to occur with minimal exertion and is happening more than a dozen times per day. The shortness of breath lasts for less than 5 minutes at a time. He has no cough, chest pressure, chest pain, swelling in his feet, palpitations, orthopnea, or paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea.Which of the following symptom attributes was not addressed in this description?

What is the reason breast cancer in men has such a poor prognosis?

Autocrine stimulation is the ability of cancer cells to do what?

.The nurse is caring for a client with metastatic bone cancer. The client asks the nurse why he has had to keep getting larger doses of his pain medication and it doesn’t seem to affect him. What is the nurse’s best response?

 The client  has a potassium level of 3.4mEq/L. The healthcare provider does not want to administer drug therapy to correct this  potassium level, but has suggested increasing the client’s dietary intake of potassium. What should the nurse recommend as the best source of potassium?

The nurse is caring for a client with emphysema. Which of the following would be an early manifestation of this disorder?

The admitting nurse is assessing a client with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The nurse notes that the client is breathing “really hard” despite being on 2 L of oxygen. The nurse performs an assessment on the client. Which of the following findings would indicate a need to notify the healthcare provider immediately?

The nurse knows that which  of the following assessment findings  an early manifestation of  hypoxia?

1.d) Bottleneck. Circle all of the statements which correctly complete the following sentence: The location of a bottleneck in a production system may depend on…