A patient with myasthenia gravis (MG) has been prescribed pyridostigmine (Mestinon). The student nurse is providing education about this drug. Which statement made by the student nurse is inaccurate?

A 22-year-old college student is admitted with suspected bacterial meningitis. The patient presents with fever, headache, photophobia, and a positive Brudzinski’s sign. The nurse notes the patient is increasingly drowsy and irritable.Which nursing intervention is the PRIORITY?

Match the descriptions with their headache type.

Little’s Law, L = λW, holds:

An M/M/c system has an arrival rate of 20 customers per hour and a mean service time of 9 minutes. What is the smallest number of servers c for which the system reaches steady state?

An Rn is working with one LPN and one UAP on a medical-surgical unit. Which action demonstrates the most appropriate prioritization and delegation? 

A single inspection station receives parts according to a Poisson process at 5 per hour. The mean inspection time is 10 minutes and its standard deviation is 6 minutes. Use the M/G/1 formula to find the average number of parts waiting, Lq. Round to 2 decimals.

The RN receives the 0700 handoff and must determine which patient requires immediate assessment. Which action is the highest priority?

Six weeks after implementation of a revised consultation policy, the nurse manager reports the following things:  (1) Average time to specialty consultation decreased from 19 hours to 7 hours (2) Three patients required emergency escalation under the revised process(3) No serious adverse events were attributed to delayed consultation during the 6-week review period (4) Staff reporting of potential safety concerns increased by 40%(5) Consultation expenditures increased by 11%(6) Senior administration questions whether the policy should be reversed because of higher costs  The nurse manager is asked to make a recommendation to the hospital’s executive leadership team.  Which recommendation by the nurse manager demonstrates the most comprehensive application of ethical nursing leadership?

A newly licensed nurse reports that a senior nurse has repeatedly made sarcastic remarks about the new nurse’s clinical abilities during shift report. The nurse manager initially encourages the nurses to work through the disagreement themselves. Two weeks later, the new nurse reports that the behavior continues and states, “I’m afraid to ask questions because I don’t want to be embarrassed again”. Which action by the nurse manager is the priority?