A nurse asks a client to extend both arms forward with palms up and close their eyes. After several seconds, one arm begins to drift downward and pronate. How should the nurse interpret this finding?

A nurse is assessing a client who recently experienced a stroke and is unable to move the right upper and lower extremities. When the nurse lifts the client’s right arm, it is lim and lacks resistance. How should the nurse document this finding?

Which pulse point is the image below demonstrating? 

Which term describes the following coping mechanism: “The patient does not want to accept the truth of what is occurring”? 

A common concern when performing bariatric surgery on morbidly obese patient population is ______. 

In surgery- the most accurate method of continuously assessing a patient’s core body temperature is when anesthesia uses a/an _____. This monitoring is an invasive method only utilized by anesthesia if the patient is intubated, under general anesthesia, and crucial in the efforts to prevent hypothermia in all surgical patients. 

After death in the operating room, all catheters, IV lines, tubes and other implanted devices are____ for coroner’s case according to state law and hospital policy.

__________ measures the electrical activity of the heart and displays the heart’s conductivity pattern on a graph. The three-lead monitoring is a routine procedure for any patient undergoing general anesthesia or sedation, in the postoperative period, and for selected high-risk patients.

Pediatric patients groups are defined and grouped according to approximate____ and predictable responses to stress and fear associated with the developmental group. However -HCPs cannot lose sight that each child should be treated as an individual, unique patient regardless of growth and size because the ____  does not always equal mental and psychological development. (both blanks are completed using the same answer) 

Preoperative personnel can alleviate some of the patient’s fears and concerns by using appropriate  __________.