Kübler-Ross defines five stages of psychosocial responses to dying and death. Which of the following statements is characteristic of the denial stage?

A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students in taking vital signs and assessing a client's respiratory status.
Which of the following guidelines should the nurse include? Select all that apply.

A nurse asks a client the current level of pain using a scale of 0 to 10 after administering pain medications 30 minutes ago. Which of the following steps of the nursing process is the nurse performing?

A 54-year-old man is participating in occupational therapy following a strokecausing right-sided weakness. What level of health promotion is being exhibited?

A nurse is managing a patient's fluids and outputs over a shift. Here are the details:

• 0700: The nurse starts an IV of 0.45% Normal saline infusing at 100 mL/hr.
• 0900: The patient has coffee-ground emesis (vomit) measuring 300 mL.
• 1000: The nurse stops the IV of 0.45% Normal saline to administer an IV antibiotic. The antibiotic administered is Kefzol 1 g in 25 mL of D5W over 30 minutes.
• 1030: The antibiotic infusion stops, and the nurse resumes the IV fluid of 0.45% Normal saline at 100 mL/hr.
• 1100: The physician orders the insertion of an NG tube and intermittent suction. The nurse inserts the NG tube and connects it to intermittent suction.
• 1530: The patient voids another 350 mL and 200 mL. The nurse checks the NG tube canister and records the output for the shift as 300 mL.

Calculate the patient's total intake from 0700 to 1530.

A nurse is taking action and performing interventions in the nursing process to provide care for patients in a
busy hospital setting. Which nursing actions best represent this step in the nursing process? Select all that apply.

A patient develops food poisoning from contaminated food. The contaminated food would be an example of which part of the infectious cycle?

The physician orders penicillin G 1,000,000 units IM. The label on the vial of powdered penicillin G reads to reconstitute with 1.6 mL of sterile water to achieve a concentration of 5,000,000 units/mL.

How many mL will the nurse give to the client for the ordered dose?

The nurse has assessed the client, analyzed the data, and identified constipation as a patient health problem.
Which assessment cues would support constipation? Select all that apply.

A nurse is caring for a client who is being treated for bladder infection. The client reports to the nurse that he has been having painful burning with urination. How should the nurse document the client's condition?

A nurse needs to calculate the amount of a medication based on a patient's weight in kg. If the patient weighs 130 pounds, how many kg does the patient weigh?

Round to the nearest tenth.