After receiving an albuterol nebulizer treatment, the patient complains of feeling slightly nervous and wonders if her asthma is getting worse. What is the nurse’s best response?

The nurse is assessing a patient who has asked for something to help “get rid of the excessive mucus” in the respiratory tract. Which of the following medications would the nurse choose? 

A patient recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism and taking levothyroxine for 6 weeks returns to the clinic for follow-up. The nurse would expect which of the following labs to be ordered?

You administer medications and about 30 minutes later the person-served vomits. What is the action you should take? 

Which of these is NOT a normal plasma protein?

Edouard van Beneden proposed that an egg and a sperm, each containing half the complement of chromosomes found in somatic cells, fuse to produce a single cell called a(n) ________.

Why is it necessary that meiosis occurs in sexually reproducing organisms?

The trait for widow’s peak can be considered a monoallelic dominant trait in humans. If a man with a widow’s peak and a woman with a straight hairline have a child together, what is the probability that the child will inherit the widow’s peak if you know that the father’s mother had a straight hairline?

The trait for widow’s peak can be considered a monoallelic dominant trait in humans. If a man with a widow’s peak and a woman with a straight hairline have a child together, what is the probability that the child will inherit the widow’s peak if you know that the father’s mother had a straight hairline?

Human males typically have XY chromosomes and females have XX chromosomes, but there are rare instances in which a male can inherit an XXY or an XYY, or a female can have three X chromosomes. Explain how an error in meiosis can cause these aberrations.