What should a medication aide do if she is assigned to perform a task she has not been trained to do?

A patient with a history of type 2 diabetes was admitted after aneurysm repair. The patient’s serum glucose levels have been elevated for the past 2 days, and the patient is concerned about becoming dependent on insulin. Which statement is the nurse’s best response to the patient’s concerns?

A patient is admitted with a long history of mental illness. The patient’s spouse states the patient has been drinking up to 10 gallons of water each day for the past 2 days and refuses to eat. The patient is severely dehydrated and soaked with urine. The nurse suspects the patient has which problem?

You are called to an emergency cesarean section of a full-term neonate due to an umbilical cord prolapse.  The baby is born and has no spontaneous cry or breathing, is limp, and pale with a heart rate of 50 bpm. Initial steps in the prevention of HIE for this baby include

In managing a neonate with HIE, it is critical to ensure adequate cerebral perfusion by maintaining mean arterial blood pressure in 

You are called to the emergent cesarean section of a full-term neonate due to placental abruption. The neonate required resuscitation in the delivery room. Apgars were 1 at 1 minute of life, 3 at 5 minutes of life, and 4 at 10 minutes of life.  Upon admission to the NICU, the neonate is lethargic with decreased activity, hypotonic, weak suck, weak Moro, constricted pupils (miosis), and bradycardia. The classification of HIE based on the Sarnat scale for this baby would be

Initial fluid restriction is recommended in the management of HIE infants because they are predisposed to a fluid overload state from 

Explain (with calculations) why a person with a weight of 500 N gets punctured when resting on a single nail, but remains unharmed when lying on a bed of nails.  Let the area of one nail be 0.00 005 m² and use a bed of about 2000 nails.  (5 marks)

If the gauge pressure is 150 kPa and the atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa, the absolute pressure is:

The potential difference across a 100 ohm resistor that has 0.01 amperes of current is: