The nurse suspects hepatic encephalopathy in a client with severe liver dysfunction. Which symptom supports the nurse’s suspicion?

Which factor is identified as a cause for acute inflammation of the pancreas?

The nurse instructor is teaching a group of nursing students about the pathophysiology of cholecystitis. The nursing instructor asks, “What happens during chronic cholecystitis?” Which statement by a student nurse indicates effective learning?

The caregiver of a client reports to the nurse that the client has difficulty in decision-making and judgment. Which part of the brain does the nurse identify as being affected in the client?

(01.03 MC)Which of the following describes a text with a purpose to entertain?

While assessing a client with nausea and dizziness, the nurse observes shortness of breath and a verbal expression of overwhelming fear. Which disorder does the nurse anticipate from the findings?

The nurse is providing care for an older adult client who presents with abdominal cramping, abdominal distention, and the inability to have a bowel movement. The patient is having frequent vomiting. The nurse should be concerned for the presence of which diagnosis?

The nurse is providing education to a patient regarding their new diagnosis of a hernia. Which of the following statements from the nurse is true?

(01.02 HC)Read the following passage from Thomas More’s Utopia.The hospitals are furnished and stored with all things that are convenient for the ease and recovery of the sick. And those that are put in them are looked after with such tender and watchful care, and are so constantly attended by their skillful physicians, that as none is sent to them against their will. So there is scarce one in a whole town that, if he should fall ill, would not choose rather to go thither than lie sick at home….Write both a summary and a paraphrase of this excerpt. Be sure to identify which is the paraphrase and which is the summary.

The nursing instructor is discussing the physical assessment findings for hemorrhoids. Which statement made by the student nurse indicates effective learning?