A client converts from normal sinus rhythm at 100 bpm to atrial fibrillation with a ventricular response at 162 bpm. Blood pressure is 142/76 mmHg. Respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute with normal chest expansion and clear lungs bilaterally. Which goal is a priority for this client? 

The healthcare provider orders the critical care medication, Lidocaine to infuse at 4 mg/min. The pharmacy has Lidocaine 1 g/250 mL available. At what rate will the nurse program the infusion pump? Round your answer to the nearest tenths. 

The nurse correlates the T wave on the electrocardiogram tracing to which cardiac action?

The client’s telemetry monitor shows the following cardiac rhythm. Which serum electrolyte level does the nurse correlate as a possible cause for this dysrhythmia?

Rip Van Winkle’s dog’s name was Sammy.

Although this individual was a slave owner and committed to removing Indians from the nation, he was regarded as “the incarnation of the democratic spirit of the age.”

Which of the following statements about Frederick Douglass are true?

About whom was this quote made in a New York Times publication? “Here was a most remarkable woman, one who lived a great life, but lived it so simply and with such limited consideration for herself that the more you study it the more it grows to be perhaps the truest life that an American woman has yet lived.”

According to the textbook, who was known as “the most beloved American poet of the nineteenth century”?

In what two ways did Walt Whitman revolutionize American poetry?