A patient in the Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit (STICU) develops a sudden onset of narrow-complex tachycardia with a rate of 220 beats per minute. The patient’s blood pressure is 124/64 and the pulse oximetry is 99%. The patient has vascular access in the right arm and has not been given any vasoactive drugs. A 12-lead ECG confirms supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) with no evidence of cardiac ischemia. The heart rate has not responded to a modified valsalva maneuver. What is your next action?

When an efficiency-seeking government maximizes , where is the sum of all individual benefits, C is cost of program implementation, what is X?

A nurse in the emergency department (ED) is assessing a patient following a 25 foot fall. Findings include absent breath sounds in the left lower lobe with dyspnea, blood pressure 118/68 mm Hg, heart rate 124 beats per minute, respirations 38 breaths per minute, and oxygen saturation (SaO2) 92% on room air. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?

A school nurse is caring for a 20-year-old who is having an asthma attack. What is the preferred intervention to alleviate this client’s airflow obstruction?

A patient previously diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism was on a weight-based heparin protocol at 12 units/kg/hour. His aPTT was drawn at 1800 and was 35 seconds.  Per the heparin order, you will need to increased the heparin by 2 units/kg/hour. What will be the new infusion rate? The patient weighs 157 pounds. (round to the nearest whole number)

After the nurse gives IV atropine to a patient with symptomatic sinus bradycardia, which finding indicates that the medication has been effective?

The nursing educator is presenting a case study of an adult client who has abnormal ventricular repolarization. This pathologic change would be most evident in what component of the ECG?

A nurse is teaching a client with asthma about the proper use of the prescribed inhaled corticosteroid. Which adverse effects should the nurse be sure to address in client teaching?

How does US rank on the Gini coefficient?

Three 25-lb boxes are placed on an oak beam. Determine the vertical reaction force at the right end of the beam. Let a = 85 in. and b = 23 in.