An LPN is caring for four clients in a medical-surgical unit. Each client has a respiratory condition requiring assessment. Which client should the LPN see first?

A client is diagnosed with pneumonia 24 hours after a hospital admission for a possible small bowel obstruction. The client’s health history reveals no pre-existing medical conditions, does not take any medications and was last seen 2 years ago for a routine physical.This pneumonia is classified as?

When caring for the patient experiencing COPD, the nurse ensures the patient receives low dose oxygen delivery.  What is the rationale for this nursing action?

A nurse is performing discharge teaching for a client with a new diagnosis of arterial insufficiency. The nurse includes which teaching for the client?

The nurse recognizes that the most common symptom of primary hypertension is?

Mycobacteria stained by the Ziehl-Neelsen or Kinyoun methods with methylene blue counter-stain are seen microscopically as:

Which antibiotic inhibits folate synthesis?

The minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) test differs from the MIC test because the MIC test gives the concentration needed at the site of infection to inhibit bacterial multiplications, whereas the MBC gives

A main guiding principle of antimicrobial therapy is to use

When combined, antimicrobial drugs are clearly less effective than the most active drug alone.  This is: