11C – A 19 year-old patient with asthma has been prescribed an budesonide/formoterol (Symbicort) inhaler. The nurse knows this medication is:

4A – Which information will the nurse include for a patient newly diagnosed with GERD? 

5A – The nurse is reviewing labs from a patient admitted for suspected malnutrition. Which lab value would give the nurse the best information about the patient’s protein status recently (few days to a week)?

2C – The nurse is caring for a 9 year old patient with cystic fibrosis. All of the following interventions have been ordered for the patient’s plan of care. Which intervention is the priority?

7A – You are teaching a patient about fiber and its role in the prevention of constipation. Which of these statements, if made by the patient, would indicate the patient needs more teaching?

10C – Which assessment information obtained by the nurse when caring for a patient with pneumonia is most important to communicate to the health care provider?

You would like to make 1 L of a 1 M Tris buffer (pKa = 8.1). Tris comes as a free base. How many moles of HCl would you expect to need for this solution to reach a pH of 6.5? Reminder: The protonated and deprotonated forms of Tris should total 1 mol/L (1M). (2 pts)

6C – The nurse is caring for a 65-year-old patient who has suffered a stroke. Which type of pneumonia is the patient most at risk for developing? 

 15B – A patient is taking a thiazide diuretic (potassium-wasting) for treatment of hypertension. The nurse will teach the patient to report symptoms of adverse effects such as:

As electrons are passed along the mitochondrial electron transport chain, what is being “pumped” out from the mitochondrial matrix into the mitochondrial intermembrane space? (1.5 pts)