You are a medical student working at your station in your hospital when an employee of the hospital asks for information about a patient who was admitted last night with a pulmonary embolus secondary to cancer. You know the details of the case. The person requesting the information states that the patient is his uncle. He also shows you proper identification proving he does work at the hospital. Which of the following is the most appropriate action in this case?

Your patient who is very ill and sleeping in the hospital had communicated she wished her medical information to be shared with her husband. One day her brother visits the hospital and says he is there on his sister’s behalf to bring back news on her medical condition to the husband. What do you do?

True or False: In “Snow,” the schoolteacher’s name is Sister Mary Elizabeth.

True or False: “Big Black Good Man” is set in the United States of America.

True or False: In “The Things They Carried,” Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is zapped while zipping.

Match the ethical principles that guide nursing practice with their meaning.

What is a general term that denotes conduct failing to care, carelessness; and a deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would use in a particular set of circumstances is known as?

Wild type blue-eyed Mary has blue flowers. Two genes control the pathway that makes the blue pigment: The product of gene W turns a white precursor into magenta pigment. The product of gene M turns the magenta pigment into blue pigment. Each gene has a recessive loss-of-function allele: w and m, respectively. A double heterozygote is cross with a double homozygote recessive. What proportion of offspring will be blue?

What is the current year?

A client is prescribed antipsychotic medication. The client starts to exhibit severe (lead pipe) rigidity, hyporeflexia, fever, and dilation of pupils. The nurse recognizes these signs/symptoms as what condition?