Match the disease to the description. 

While assessing a middle-aged patient at the clinic, you ask your patient when he had his last bowel movement.  He reluctantly responds that he regularly has abdominal cramping and rectal bleeding with 15-20 liquid stools daily which contain blood.  You know that these symptoms are characteristic of which of the following diseases listed below?

This surgical procedure to strengthen the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), as relaxation of the LES is thought to be the cause of GERD, can be performed to strengthen the sphincter by wrapping a layer of the upper stomach wall around the sphincter and esophagus to lessen the possibility of acid reflux.

A patient with a longtime history of diverticulosis presents to the ED.  Your patient states that he has been suffering with his most recent symptoms below for the past 4 days.  Choose the symptoms below which lead you to believe your patient, with the initial diagnosis of diverticulosis, has progressed to diverticulitis.    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Throughout the care of your patient with esophageal cancer, on multiple occasions he complains of this particular symptom.

Which of the following is a characteristic of cyclosporine used in liver transplantation?

Which of the following signs and symptoms are most indicative of hemorrhage and shock in a patient with esophageal varices?

You have provided patient education to your postoperative partial gastrectomy patient which includes all of the following TRUE statements advising your patient how to avoid dumping syndrome.  SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A patient scheduled for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy has signed a consent form for both laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy. The nurse notices the consent includes open cholecystectomy, even though the patient is scheduled for the laparoscopic procedure. What should the nurse do? 

_______ act to classify, explain, and deliver information usually to family and friends.