Imagine you are a doctor trying to determine if a patient has damaged a cranial nerve or a spinal nerve. How could you best determine this? a. Spinal nerve damage should affect only reflexes. b. Spinal nerve damage should affect sensation, but not motor movements. c. Spinal nerve damage should only affect organs and glands. d. Spinal nerve damage should affect only the torso and limbs.

Anurse is assessing a client who is receiving clindamycin. which of the following findings should the nurse identify as an adverse effect of this medication? a. report of blurred vision b. watery diarrhea c. hypertension d. agitation

Mr. will, a 67-year-old patient, is postoperative day 2 after a coronary artery bypass graft operation to revascularize his coronary arteries that were significantly blocked. he has a midline incision of his chest and a 7-inch incision on the inner aspect of his right thigh where a saphenous vein graft was harvested and used to vascularize the blocked coronary artery. the surgeon ordered oxycodone 5 mg every 4 hours prn for moderate pain and oxycodone 10 mg every 4 hours prn for severe pain. a. considering the patient's age, what medication administration considerations should the nurse incorporate into the pain management plan and why? b. what measures should the nurse provide the patient to prevent adverse effects of analgesic agents from occurring? c. what nonpharmacologic pain management methods should the nurse teach to mr. will to assist with pain management?

Sterilization of surgical instruments is a process that renders the items free of: a. spores. b. blood. c. oil d. dirt