A nurse in an emergency department is assisting with the care of a client who is unconscious and has trauma to multiple systems following a motor vehicle crash. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?  

Interpret the following arterial blood gases result and indicate which issue is present based on these results: pH          7.25 pCO2        47  HCO3       26  

A 42 week infant with perinatal asphyxia is anuric with a low sodium and normal potassium. What is your fluid management plan?

A 40 week infant is 250 grams above birthweight on DOL 3 and remains on the ventilator support for management of congenital pneumonia. His urine output is 1.2 ml/kg/hr for the last 24 hours. He is on TPN and has a UAC with normal saline infusing. Total fluids are 70 ml/kg/day. His sodium today is 131. You recognize that his sodium is low secondary to:

Infants of diabetic mothers are prone to develop:

A 23 week female is in a heated, humidified isolette with total fluids of 150 ml/kg/day on DOL 3. Her urine output was 7 ml/kg/hr overnight. Her sodium is 154 this morning. How will you treat her sodium level?

A term, AGA infant had severe hypoglycemia in the first 24 hours of life and is requiring a glucose infusion rate of 13 mg/kg/min with continued low glucose levels on DOL 5. The infant was previously eating normally in newborn nursery before developing hypotonia, apnea, and cyanosis, then a seizure. The septic workup was negative. What do you suspect the cause of the hypoglycemia is?

What is the primary purpose of the castle doctrine in self-defense law?

In the NY v. Goetz (1986) case, what legal strategy did the defendant use to avoid conviction for attempted murder under New York law?

Why is the classification of a defendant as an “aggressor” important in self-defense cases?