Your patient is a 24-year-old female diagnosed as having an ulcer in the first part of the duodenum.  The incision will be made superficial to the duodenum in the anterior abdominal wall.  Which region of the abdomen will the incision be made? 

A 59-year-old male complains of acute pain on his mandible.  He has an acute inflammation of the temporomandibular joint due to arthritis.  Which of the following muscles inserts on the mandibular condyle and functions in depressing and protruding the mandible?

A staff nurse has a TB skin test of 8-mm induration. A chest radiograph is negative, and the nurse has no symptoms of TB. The occupational health nurse will plan on teaching the staff nurse about the

A patient with an acute exacerbation of COPD has the following ABG analysis: pH 7.36, PaO2 58 mm Hg, PaCO2 55 mm Hg, HCO3 of 30 mm Hg and SaO2 95%. The nurse recognizes these values as evidence of

To teach the patient with COPD pursed lip breathing, the nurse instructs the patient to

A patient was admitted yesterday to the hospital for treatment of gun shot wound. The patient has also developed a productive cough and fever of 103.4 F. The patient is breathing on their own and doesn’t require mechanical ventilation. On assessment you note coarse crackles in the right lower lobe. A chest x-ray shows infiltrates with consolidation in the right lower lobe. Based on this specific patient scenario what type of pneumonia is this?

Which of the following processes generates the greatest amount of energy?

Mannitol salt agar contains 7.5% salt which selects against salt intolerant bacteria. Mannitol is an alcohol that may be fermented by certain bacteria. A Gram positive coccus is able to grow on mannitol salt agar and ferments mannitol, this bacteria is probablya. Micrococcus luteus

A patient with metabolic alkalosis has an SPO2 of 95%  in room air and a shift to the left of the oxygen hemoglobin dissociation curve. Which action by the nurse is appropriate?

A staff nurse has a TB skin test of 8-mm induration. A chest radiograph is negative, and the nurse has no symptoms of TB. The occupational health nurse will plan on teaching the staff nurse about the