The nurse in a pain clinic is caring for an 88-year-old who is experiencing long-term, intractable pain. At this point, the pain team feels that first-line pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic methods of pain relief have been ineffective. What recommendation should guide this patient’s subsequent care?

The nurse is caring for a patient newly diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer. The patient asks the nurse why they had to keep getting larger doses of pain medication. What is the nurse’s best response?

While performing a client’s ordered wound care for the treatment of a burn, the client has made a series of sarcastic remarks to the nurse and criticized the nurse’s technique. How should the nurse best interpret this client’s behavior?

A client is being transferred to the emergency department via ambulance with a scald injury from a hot kettle. Which variables will the nurse consider when determining the depth of burn? Select all that apply.

A patient has been admitted with a diagnosis of hypokalemia. The most recent laboratory reports confirm that the patient is not adequately responding to treatment. What assessment finding would be most relevant to providing appropriate treatment for this patient?

A home care nurse is performing a visit to a client’s home to perform wound care following the client’s hospital treatment for severe burns. While interacting with the client, the nurse should assess for evidence of what complication?

Suppose the sampling distribution for average calories in bananas is normally distributed with a mean of 105 and a standard error of 4.  Find the range of central 95% of sample means.

Suppose that 60% of Americans planned to vote in the next election. You take a random sample of 100 people and ask them if they plan on voting in the next presidential election.  What approximate distribution would you expect for the sampling distribution of the sample proportion of Americans who planned on voting?

In the 2012 presidential election, 57.5% of eligible voters cast their vote. Suppose that 200 randomly selected eligible voters were asked if they had voted in the 2012 presidential election. What approximate distribution would you expect for the sampling distribution of the sample proportion of Americans who voted in the 2012 presidential election?  

Suppose that you had the following hypothesis Ho: p = 0.5 versus Ha: p > 0.5. If you had the test statistic equal to 2.24, what would be the p-value?