The nurse is caring for a client who is receiving vancomycin (Vancocin) to treat a severe infection. The next dose is due to be administered at 10:00 a.m. What time will the nurse draw the vancomycin serum trough level?

A client describes self as being healthy despite having several chronic illnesses. In which way should the nurse interpret the client’s statement about health?  

The nurse works in a hospital located in a culturally diverse area of the city. In striving to be culturally sensitive, what should the nurse do?  

A patient in your nursing home, with a history of a stroke has developed pneumonia several times over the past year.  The health care provider has placed an order for the Speech Therapist to evaluate the patient.  What is the purpose of the speech therapist evaluation? 

A problem with the too-big-to-fail policy is that it ________ the incentives for ________ by big banks.

To claim that a lottery winner who is to receive $1 million per year for twenty years has won $20 million ignores the process of

Inpatient admission:  The patient, status post cadaveric renal and pancreas transplants with type 2 diabetes and diabetic peripheral angiopathy, had a nonhealing ulcer on his left heel with muscle necrosis that had been debrided three weeks earlier.  He came to the ER complaining of a three day history of left foot pain, fever, and foul smelling discharge from the ulcer.  He was admitted, and a left below the knee amputation of the lower leg at the distal portion of the tibia and fibula was performed. Discharge diagnosis:  Diabetic gangrene of the left foot. Code BOTH ICD10CM and ICD10PCS codes

Drainage is coded for what kind of procedure?

Inpatient admission:  The patient, a three year old male, was admitted for evaluation of fever, cough, and persistent pulmonary interstitial infiltrate.  A chest tube was placed on the right side for drainage.  The child’s condition was consistent with pneumonia and aspiration of mucus.  On the day after chest tube insertion, the chest xray was clear, and the chest tube was pulled.  He was placed on aspiration precautions and antibiotics.  He was to be followed up as an outpatient. Discharge diagnosis.  Pneumonia secondary to aspiration of mucous. Code both the ICD10CM and ICD10PCS applicable code(s).

The chartering process is especially designed to deal with the ________ problem, and regular bank examinations help to reduce the ________ problem.