Adina owns Yogi’s Yogurt in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Adina sells the yogurt shop to Dagmar. The contract for the sale of the business includes a clause that prohibits Adina from owning or working in any restaurant in Arkansas for two years from the date of the sale. One year after the sale is completed, Adina opens a steakhouse in West Memphis, Arkansas, which is 300 miles from Fort Smith. If Dagmar sues Adina for breaching the terms of the contract:

The nurse has completed an assessment on a client with a decreased cardiac output after an MI.  Which finding should receive the highest priority?

The nurse is caring for a group of clients on a pulmonary unit.  The nurse can delegate which task to an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?

A nurse is teaching a client who has emphysema about self-management strategies.  Which of the following statements by the client indicates an understanding of the teaching?

The nurse reviews an ABG report for a client with COPD.  The results are as follows: pH 7.36, PC02 62, P02 70, HC03 34.  What should the nurse do first?

 Your job as the research director in the Alabama Department of Youth Services is to advise the Director which policies to follow. In the past, you have heard that some institutions have had as many as 80 disturbances in a year.  The average number of disturbances (riots, stabbings, fights, etc.) per year per institution, though, is 35, with a standard deviation of 7.0.  The distribution is normal.  Answer the following questions.   a) What is the z-score for an institution that had 40 disturbances in one year?  What does this z-score indicate?   b) You want to give raises to the wardens in the prisons that have disturbances in the bottom 15% of the distribution, and fire the wardens in prisons in the top 15%.  What number of disturbances will be the cut-off for each of these decisions?   c) What is the probability that an institution would have 40 or more disturbances?   d) What is the probability that an institution would have 36 or fewer disturbances?  

A client has been in an automobile accident and the nurse is assessing for possible pneumothorax.  What finding should the nurse immediately report to the health care provider?

A nurse is caring for a client who is 12 hours postoperative and has a chest tube to a drainage system with suction.  The nurse should intervene for which of the following observations?

An elderly patient developed pneumonia.  Which of the following would most likely develop first?

A client with a pneumothorax has a chest tube inserted that is connected to a chest drainage system.  The nurse notes that the fluid in the water seal column is fluctuating with each breath that the client takes. What is the significance of this fluctuation?