An infant brought in to the emergency department is severely dehydrated after an extended episode of diarrhea. Which of the following acid-base imbalances is most likely to occur? 

The nurse is reviewing admission lab results for a client. The client’s electrolyte panel results show a serum sodium level of 122 mEq/L (136-145 mEq/L). While assessing the client, which symptoms will the nurse expect to find related to the sodium level?

A 16 year old girl is seen by her primary care provider because her parents are concerned about her binge eating and their recent discovery that she engages in self-induced vomiting. What type of acid-base disorder would this client be at risk for developing?

Describe a situation where effective decision-making was essential for a leader.

Visionary leaders focus exclusively on the present without considering the future.

What is an essential quality for a good leader?

Choose one of the following questions and respond to it:    A. What is hard determinism? Give an argument for this view. Which premise of the argument would a compatibilist deny? Which premise of the argument would a libertarian deny? Critically evaluate the compatibilist and the libertarian responses. B.  Explain the alleged threat of situational influences for free will and critically evaluate it. To give a full answer to this question, you need to: Explain what situational influences are and give examples of them. Explain why situational influences might pose a problem for free will by giving an argument that assumes that there are situational influences and concludes that free will does not exist. Critically evaluate the alleged problem by critically evaluating the argument.

What is moral objectivism? Explain four virtues of this view? Explain the objections against moral objectivism based on the value of tolerance and the role of science. How does Landau respond to these objections? Critically evaluate his response.  

What is Nihilism and what’s the difference between its two main versions (error theory and expressivism?) What are the main attractions of expressivism? How does Hume’s motivational argument support expressivism? Give a critical response to this argument.

The most crucial element, according to Nickitas, Middaugh and Feeg (2020), regarding the principle of Patient- Centered Care is: