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?

The AG-ACNP is preparing to intubate a 33-year-old male. Before the intubation the AG-ACNP examines the patient’s airway for a Mallampati score to help predict for a difficult intubation. The AG-ACNP knows that  the following classification predicts the most difficulty in intubation:  

An intubated patient is receiving enteral nutrition. Today she has a new onset fever, leukocytosis and increased sputum production. Chest x-ray demonstrates right lower lobe (RLL) infiltrate. Which  of the following intervention is most beneficial to decrease the incidence of this complication?

The 24-year-old patient is admitted after a drug overdose. She was intubated in the field for unresponsiveness. In the emergency department, her initial blood pressure is 100/70 mm Hg, for pulse is 65 beats/min, and her respiratory rate is 6 beats/min. She has pinpoint pupils, diffuse crackles on chest exam, and the toxicology screen positive for cocaine, methadone, and diazepam. Which of the following ventilator settings would be the most appropriate given her clinical presentation?

A patient is receiving digoxin 0.25 mg/day. Unless specified otherwise by the doctors order, what should the nurse do prior to administering this medication?

Which teaching point will the nurse include when providing discharge instructions to the patient with a new permanent pacemaker?