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Which area of the brain affects speech? - CORRECT AN-SWER Broca's area Priority following stroke before eating - CORRECT ANSWER -swallow evaluation by speech pathologist Priority interventions durring stroke - CORRECT ANSWER -call 911 -maintain airway -check BP -MRI or CT scan w or w/o contrast -fibrinolytic therapy What to WOF with stroke pt.? - CORRECT ANSWER sei-zures What are characteristics of melanoma? - CORRECT AN-SWER ***ABCD -Asymmetry; the two sides ...

. The 44-year-old female client calls the clinic and tells the nurse she felt a lump while performing breast self-examination (BSE). Which question should the nurse ask the client? 1. "Are you taking birth control pills?" 2. "Do you eat a lot of chocolate?" 3. "When was your last period?" 4. "Are you sexually active?" - CORRECT ANSWER 3. During the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause, variations in breast tissue occur and must be distinguished from pathological disease. B...

What is Starling's Law of Capillary forces? How does this explain why a nutritionally deficient child would have edema? - CORRECT ANSWER Starling's Law describes how fluids move across the capillary membrane. There are two major opposing forces that act to balance each other, hydrostatic pressure (pushing wa-ter out of the capillaries) and osmotic pressure (including oncontic pressure, which pushes fluid into the capillaries). Both electrolytes and proteins (oncontic pressure) in...

What is Starling's Law of Capillary forces? How does this explain why a nutritionally deficient child would have edema? - CORRECT ANSWER Starling's Law describes how fluids move across the capillary membrane. There are two major opposing forces that act to balance each other, hydrostatic pressure (pushing wa-ter out of the capillaries) and osmotic pressure (including oncontic pressure, which pushes fluid into the capillaries). Both electrolytes and proteins (oncontic pressure) in...

Which area of the brain affects speech? - CORRECT AN-SWER Broca's area Priority following stroke before eating - CORRECT ANSWER -swallow evaluation by speech pathologist Priority interventions durring stroke - CORRECT ANSWER -call 911 -maintain airway -check BP -MRI or CT scan w or w/o contrast -fibrinolytic therapy What to WOF with stroke pt.? - CORRECT ANSWER sei-zures What are characteristics of melanoma? - CORRECT AN-SWER ***ABCD -Asymmetry; the two sides ...

A nurse is providing discharge instructions to a Chinese client regarding prescribed dietary modifications. During the teaching session the client con-tinually turns away from the nurse. Which of the following nursing actions is most appropriate? 1. Continue with the instructions, verifying client understanding. 2. Identify the importance of the instructions for the maintenance of health care. 3. Walk around the client so that the nurse continually faces the client. 4. Give the client a ...

A patient who is hospitalized with abdominal pain and watery, incon-tinent diarrhea is diagnosed with Clostridium difficile. In planning care for the patient, the nurse will a. order a diet with no dairy products for the patient. b. place the patient in a private room with contact isolation. c. explain to the patient why antibiotics are not being used. d. teach the patient about proper food handling and storage. - COR-RECT ANSWER ANS: B Rationale: Because C. difficile is highly contag...

Neurons that conduct impulses from the CNS to muscles or glands are - CORRECT ANSWER motor neurons. Which cells produce myelin in the brain and spinal cord? - COR-RECT ANSWER Oligodendrocytes Every neuron has - CORRECT ANSWER a cell body. If a resting potential becomes more negative, the membrane is - CORRECT ANSWER hyperpolarized. Which of the following neuroglia are not part of the CNS? - COR-RECT ANSWER Satellite cells

What is the difference between anatomy and physiology? - CORRECT ANSWER Anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts, whereas physiology is the study of the function of body parts What are the levels of organization? - CORRECT ANSWER subatomic particles, atom, molecule, macromolecule, orga-nelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism What are the requirements of life? - CORRECT ANSWER Water, food, oxygen, heat, pressure What are the characteristics of life? - CO...

A nurse in the ED is performing triage for a group of clients following a MVC. Which of the following clients should the nurse request the provider assess first? -A client who has a closed leg fracture and reports peripheral paresthe-sia -A client who reports a sprained ankle and has a laceration over the medial ankle -A client who has arm contusions and manifests asymmetrical thoracic movement -A client who has abrasions to the face and is requesting medication for severe pain - CORRECT...