Zane is a nurse practitioner working on a research study. He and his colleagues are studying the effect of a new cancer drug.  Half of the participants will receive a standard chemotherapy drug and the other half will receive the experimental drug.  His role is to monitor the participants and make sure each one is getting the proper drug.  The other researchers are “blinded” so they do not know who is getting the standard drug and who is getting the experimental drug. Mrs. Hernandez is Zane’s patient, and she has been battling cancer for about 8 months.  She has been receiving standard chemotherapy, but her condition is worsening significantly.  Zane recommended that she enroll in the study because there would be a possibility that she would get this promising experimental drug which could improve her chances of survival.  Zane sees that Mrs. Hernandez is randomly assigned to the “standard chemotherapy” group, so she will not be receiving the experimental drug.  Zane knows the experimental drug is her best hope for survival, so he moves her to the “experimental chemotherapy” group.  Due to his role in the study, he can do this without anyone ever knowing he did it.  This requires he move someone else from the “experimental chemotherapy” group to the “standard chemotherapy” group.  He looks over the list and chooses another patient he knows with a less serious prognosis.  He moves that patient to the “standard chemotherapy” group.    Which one of the following principles motivates Zane’s actions? Autonomy Veracity Beneficence Compensatory Justice

Olivia works as a nurse at a local hospital. She is caring for a patient who is recovering from surgery.  Her patient is in a great deal of pain and Olivia feels he would benefit from prescription pain medication.  The patient has requested pain medications and Olivia sees this as reasonable because she has cared for patients with similar pain issues and pain medication helped quite a bit for those patients.  The patient’s surgeon is currently in the operating room with another case and cannot be reached.  Olivia reached out to another physician to get a prescription for pain medicine, but that physician will not write an order for medication because the hospital does not allow a non-treating doctor to prescribe medication to a patient.  Olivia is upset with situation.  Which best describes what Olivia is feeling? Moral Distress Type A Moral Distress Type B

100 mA, 1/20s = 

I an operator can increase the distance from the primary beam by a factor of 2, what would be the resultant dose of radiation?

500 mA, 1/120s= 

At a P O2 of 70 mm Hg and normal temperature and pH, the percent of hemoglobin bound to oxygen is approximately ________ percent.  Use the graph below to determine your answer. Untitled.png

Computerized Radiography denotes a:

The workplace program the has been developed to ensure radiation exposures are kept as low as possible is

100 mA, 1/60s= 

What safety feature on x-ray machines limits the size of the primary beam and reduces secondary x-ray exposure to the operator?