Data are an indispensable part of scientific method.

The nurse practitioner is treating an eight-year-old patient for chronic constipation. The patient has just achieved a successful clean-out of the colon. What plan should the nurse practitioner discuss with the patient’s parent regarding the maintenance medications?

Imagine a situation where you are studying the function of a neuron from a giant squid in the laboratory.  That neuron has been dissected out and is floating in a dish that exactly replicates the normal extracellular fluid for this cell.  You have the ability to stimulate this neuron to threshold as much as you would like AND you can see any action potentials generated on a computer monitor.   If you exposed this neuron to a drug that blocks _____, you would expect that neuron could generate action potentials normally for a few seconds if you stimulate it sufficiently, but it would become incapable of generating any further action potentials after a few seconds.

When doing summation, the number above the summation sign indicates the term ending the summation and the number below indicates the beginning term.

Learning not to touch a hot stove after having been burned by it is an example of learning through __________.

Pearson r requires that the data be of interval or ratio scaling.

The electrical activity that occurs along an axon when it sends a signal is called a(n) __________________________.

A 17-year-old presents to the clinic for a school physical. The patient is mildly overweight, but not obese. The patient has no underlying health issues and has been healthy in the past. There is no family history of hypertension, but the patient’s blood pressure is 130/78 when the nurse obtains the vitals prior to the nurse practitioner entering the room. The patient’s blood pressure does not change significantly on 3 other attempts to measure it. The nurse practitioner discusses with the parent that the initial treatment for this type of high blood pressure should be:

The nurse is caring for a newborn born to a client who experienced abruptio placentae.Which assessment findings suggest that the infant is experiencing anemia? Select all that apply.

Constant glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is important as it allows kidneys to make filtrate and maintain extracellular homeostasis.