A client with a possible pheochromocytoma is admitted to the hospital for evaluation and diagnostic testing. During an attack, what should the nurse  expect the client to experience?

Which of the following assessments would indicate that a client who is hospitalized with acute adrenal insufficiency is responding favorably to treatment?

A patient receives a daily injection of 70/30 NPH/regular insulin premix at 7:00 AM. The nurse should expect that a hypoglycemic reaction would most likely occur around which of the following times?

A client with diabetes insipidus is treated with nasal desmopressin (DDAVP). The nurse recognizes that the drug is having an inadequate pharmacologic effect when the client has which of the following symptoms occurring?

Name the condition that can result if hypersecretion of growth hormone occurs after epiphyseal closure occurs.

A newly admitted client weighs 210 lb (95 kg) and has been diagnosed with hyperglycemia.  She tells the nurse that her husband sleeps in another room because her snoring keeps him awake. The nurse notices that she has large hands and a hoarse voice. Which of the following would the nurse suspect as a possible cause of the client’s hyperglycemia?

Which assessment parameter has the highest priority when caring for a patient undergoing a water deprivation test?

When you rewrite a system’s equations in slope-intercept form, what condition(s) needs to be met in order to know there is one solution.

Use the equations below to find out which function would have the sharpest curve. Note: don’t worry about the initial value, just pay attention to the growth factor. a. f(x) = 12(.85)x b. g(x) = 12(.43)x c. h(x) = 19(1.1)x d. s(x) = 7(1.37)x

A bacterial infection is being combated with antibiotics. The medication is able to reduce the bacteria by 25% per day. How much of the bacteria remains after 6 days if there were 5,000 bacterial organism to begin with?