A 3-year-old male was brought into the emergency room this morning with a sudden onset of “fast and noisy breathing”. What other symptoms is the nurse likely to note in a child diagnosed with epiglottitis?

The MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella) is given subcutaneously at a dose of 0.5 mL if the patient is not immune to rubella.
How should the risk of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) and Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) be evaluated?

A nurse is caring for a client diagnosed with acute rhinosinusitis.

Which of the following instructions should the nurse provide to the client? Select all that apply. 

The nurse is educating parents on how to prevent recurrent otitis media in their infant.
What advice should the nurse give?

A nurse is providing instructions to the parent of a 10-year-old child who has recently been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). The parent expresses a fear of needles and is unable to perform the procedure of administering subcutaneous insulin injections to the child.
What action should the nurse take?

The nurse is caring for a toddler with a large, unrepaired ventricular septal defect and heart failure.
What assessment finding should the nurse expect?

A client at 28-weeks gestation whose hemoglobin level is 10.7 g/dL (107 g/L) and hematocrit is 32.3% (0.323 volume fraction), tells the nurse that she eats plenty of green vegetables.
When the client asks the nurse how the pregnancy might affect the laboratory findings, which information should the nurse provide?

The nurse is caring for a client who is 40-weeks gestation in active labor and has received epidural anesthesia.

What is the most important assessment for the nurse to conduct following the administration of epidural anesthesia?

An adolescent client who has successfully managed hemophilia for the past 10 years is evaluated by the nurse.
Which behavior best evidences the client’s adjustment to the disorder as an adolescent?

A parent rushes their pre-school age child to the emergency department with an asthma exacerbation.
Which additional finding should alert the nurse that the child is in acute respiratory distress?

The client is awake and alert, interacting with parents at the bedside.
She has thin, copious mucus from her nose and mouth and a cough.
She took her bottle in 20 minutes, with no issues.
The client’s monitor alarmed, oxygen saturation is 59%. She is cyanotic.
The client was placed in a knee-to-chest position, and the rapid response team was called.
What could be the potential cause of the client’s condition?