A client returns to the unit after a thoracentesis. Thirty minutes later, the client reports sudden chest tightness and increasing shortness of breath. The nurse notes reduced breath sounds on the affected side, and oxygen saturation has decreased from 97% to 90%.  What complication should the nurse suspect?

A client had a long fiberglass cast applied to the lower leg earlier today for a tibial fracture. During the afternoon assessment, the client reports the leg “feels like it is going to burst” and has increasing pain unrelieved by the prescribed analgesic. The nurse notes the toes are pale, swollen, and capillary refill is greater than 3 seconds. What is the priority nursing action?

A nurse enters the room of a client with a chest tube and finds the tubing has become disconnected from the chest drainage unit. The client is awake and breathing spontaneously. A sterile connector is available at the bedside. What is the nurse’s priority action?

7) The variable ‘Z’ is the [answer].

5) Although X-rays are nonionizing, gamma rays are ionizing radiation.

When two carriers of CF produce a child, there is a: I. 75% chance that the baby will be a carrierII. 25% chance that the baby will be a noncarrier (normal)III. 50% chance that the baby will have CFIV. 25% chance that the baby will have CF

Sentence Skills Write a complex sentence: with a reason clause about a vacation   

What is NOT a diagnostic tool used when CF is suspected?

Which of the following statments about bronchiectasis is false?

Sentence Skills Write a complex sentence: with a noun clause. the noun clause begins with the word “if”