13.  The nurse instructs the patient that palliative surgery may be performed for the following reason?

19.  An 85 year old female is admitted to the emergency room and reports muscle weakness and leg cramps. She is alone. When assessed for orientation, she is confused. While the nurse is waiting for her labs to return, which of the following actions would be most helpful to the nurse to determine which electrolyte imbalance is occurring?

16.  After change-of-shift report, which patient should the nurse assess first?

Gene expression begins with transcription.  A process in which:

The macromolecules of life are built by _______ reactions, which link monomers together.

When the time of childbirth approaches, the head of the baby pushes against the mother’s cervix and stimulates release of the hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin travels in the blood to the uterus and stimulated it to contract.  These contractions cause the baby to push against the cervix more, stimulating the release of more oxytocin and therefore, contractions increase in frequency and intensity until the baby is born. This is an example of ______.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a parameter for which our bodies establish gradients, in order to perform work?

Cholesterol must be packaged into LDL and HDL particles so that it can travel in the watery environment of the bloodstream because cholesterol is very ______. 

A continental margin facing a spreading center would be considered a/an (?).

A 50-year-old man is post left lower lobe lobectomy for stage-1 lung cancer. He is 3 days post-surgery and you are asked to see him because of a change in color and consistency in the drainage in his chest tube-chest drainage collection system. What is your next plan of action?