A patient with diarrhea has been diagnosed with Clostridium difficile.  Along with standard precautions, which kind of transmission-based precautions will be used when the nurse is caring for this patient? 

The patient with chronic kidney disease is considering whether to use peritoneal dialysis (PD) or hemodialysis (HD).  What are the advantages of PD when compared to HD? (Select all that apply.) 

A patient has developed acute kidney injury (AKI) secondary to hemorrhagic shock. Which intravenous solution would the nurse expect to be ordered for this patient?

A patient with acute kidney injury has a potassium level of 6.9 mg/dL. The patient has had no urine output in the past 4 hours despite administration of Lasix 40 mg intravenous push. To correct the hyperkalemia the patient is given 50 mL of 50% dextrose in water and 10 U of regular insulin intravenous push. What other medication and follow-up should be done in conjunction with the above treatment? (Select all that apply) 

For a patient with CKD the nurse identifies a nursing diagnosis of risk for injury: fracture related to alternation in calcium and phosphorous metabolism. What is the pathologic process directly related to the increased risk for fractures? 

Click the area where you would see mitral regurgitation with color Doppler.

What does the sonographer use to calculate the dp/dt?

________ is defined as the exertion of force upon blood. 

__________ is the volume of blood ejected by the ventricles with each contraction.

Velocity Time Integral (VTI) is how far blood travels during one minute.