The nurse is providing education to a client recently diagnosed with hypertension. What explanation should the nurse provide regarding the body’s attempt to compensate for hypertension?

A client comes to you with cough and dyspnea. You look his his chart and notice he is on several antihypertensives and a high dose statin. You begin to wonder if his heart is the cause of these pulmonary symptoms. What diagnosis would you predict?

A 10-year-old male is stung by a bee while playing in the yard. He experiences a severe allergic reaction and has to go to the ER. The nurse providing care realizes this reaction is the result of which of the following? 

A nurse is reviewing lab reports. The nurse recalls blood plasma is located in which of the following fluid compartments? 

The nurse is caring for a client who was prescribed morphine 2mg IV push every 2 hours for breakthrough pain. Which classification applies to morphine?

The adult client is experiencing an acute exacerbation of asthma symptoms and is being treated with albuterol via nebulizer.  Which of the following assessments indicate that the medication treatments are effective?

A client is taking atorvastatin and fenofibrate to lower her lipid levels and is complaining of muscle pain.  Which drug is most likely causing the muscle pain?

A nurse mistakenly administers 1L of hypertonic saline solution (3% NaCl solution) intravenously into a client. What will happen to this patient’s erythrocytes?

Let’s say that a COVID-19 test with an 85% sensitivity is given to 100 patients who are known to have COVID-19 antibodies.  How many of those patients would have a true positive test and how many would have a false negative test?

What was the most interesting thing you learned in this course?  Describe it in detail here.