A physical examination findings in patients with Graves’ disease may include:

When counseling a patient taking a Bisphosphonate such as Fosamax you advise that the medication should be taken with ?

The nurse is caring for a client who has cirrhosis of the liver. What nursing action is appropriate to help control ascites

A patient with liver cirrhosis is admitted to the hospital with altered mental status, confusion, and asterixis. What lab value result should the nurse immediately report to the provider?

Use the following phylogenetic tree to answer a series of questions.  Consider the following cladogram of eight species of Mimulus (M.).  Note that the time vector is pointing to the left in this diagram, so the current species are on the left and the ancestors are on the right hand side.  A. What do nodes represent? B. Which species is most closely related to M. lewisii ?  C. How do you know ? D. Which species would be the outgroup ?  E. What was the pollinator for the common ancestor to the eight species shown here ? F. How many times did pollination by hummingbirds evolve in this clade ? 

Q9.  A patient is taking metformin for new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus. What information will the nurse include when reviewing potential adverse effects? (Select all that apply.)

Q25. A patient being treated for advanced ovarian cancer asks the nurse how the medication, cisplatin, works. What is the correct response by the nurse? 

Q17. Which signs and symptoms assessed by the nurse could indicate thrombocytopenia? 

Q22. A nurse is collecting data from client who has received chemotherapy to treat lung cancer. Which adverse effect will the nurse report to the provider right away?

Q8.  When checking a patient’s fingerstick blood glucose level, the nurse obtains a reading of 52 mg/dL. The patient is awake but states he feels a bit “light-headed.” After double-checking the patient’s glucose level and getting the same reading, which action by the nurse is most appropriate?