A nurse is assessing a client who is five days postoperative following orthopedic surgery. Which of the following findings should the nurse report to the provider first?

Immediately following administration of an epidural anesthesia, the nurse must monitor the mother for which of the following side effects? 

Describe how natural selection made cooperation a social value. Note: This question requires detail of how natural selection first made cooperation valuable among various animal species. Without these details, we can’t fully explain why cooperation is a social value among humans.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of basic human needs is useful when planning and implementing nursing care as it provides a structure for establishing priorities of care. Which of the following is the least of the human needs based on the pyramid?

A nurse is caring for a client who had a right total knee arthroplasty 1 day ago and is receiving hydromorphone by patient controlled analgesia (PCA) pump for pain control. The client reports increased itching. Which priority action should the nurse take?

A nurse is caring for a client admitted with atrial fibrillation with a heart rate of 100 beats per minute. The provider initiates digoxin therapy. The nurse plans to notify the provider of which finding noted during assessment of the client?

A client has received a unit of packed RBCs. Which lab value would indicate to the nurse that the treatment was effective?

A patient is admitted to the hospital with terminal cancer. The nurse enters the patient’s room to administer medication and finds the patient crying. The appropriate nursing action is to:

The client with end-stage cirrhosis presents with lethargy and confusion. The nurse recognizes these as complications of which disorder?

The nurse is completing an admission on a patient diagnosed with a seizure. The nurse informs the patient of the possible diagnostic tests to diagnose a seizure disorder. Which of the following is a test commonly used to diagnose a seizure disorder?