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    Chapter 67: Nursing Management: Shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A 78-kg patient with septic shock has a urine output of 30 mL/hr for the past 3 hours. The pulse rate is 120/minute and the central venous pressure and pulmonary artery wedge pressure are low. Which order by the health care provider will the nurse question? a. Give PRN furosemide (Lasix) 40 mg IV. b. Increase normal saline infusion to 250 mL/hr. c.

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    education in social psychology, he wanted to explore the obedience of German people. He thought the atrocities committed during WWII could be attributed to a highly obedient country and culture. Milgram would soon come to realize obedience is an integral part of human nature. Milgram theorized that if a person was asked to shock another person within an experiment, they would quit before reaching high voltages. The three roles in his experiment would be the learner, the experimenter, and the teacher; the

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    ASSIGNMENT 1 For Medsurg

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    ASSIGNMENT # 1 1. Adam Smith, 77 years of age, is a male patient who was admitted from a nursing home to the intensive care unit with septic shock secondary to urosepsis. The patient has a Foley catheter in place from the nursing home with cloudy greenish, yellow-colored urine with sediments. The nurse removes the catheter after obtaining a urine culture and replaces it with a condom catheter attached to a drainage bag since the patient has a history of urinary and bowel incontinence. The patient

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    Community Health Education Project Aggregate Focused Health Needs Assessment The Elisabeth Morrow School is a private school providing education for children in grade kindergarten through eighth grade. The school encompasses three educational buildings, with three additional resource buildings including a gymnasium, science lab, and library. The Elisabeth Morrow School sits on a 14-acre campus and provides a unique educational experience for over 400 students. The Elisabeth Morrow School healthcare

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    nervousness. Though shell-shock was a new phenomenon, it was not the first war related nervousness. Indeed, 1.2 million soldiers were wounded or sick, a quarter of which were admitted to hospitals as psychiatric casualties . These numbers are immense and when put in perspective with a general public, demand to be spoken about. With the wide spread introduction of neurasthenia, disordered action of the heart and, what we now know as, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , shell-shock became an umbrella

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    Shock is a feeling of fascination and excitement mixed with anxiety, tension, suspense and surprise developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and engaging source of entertainment (Merriam-Webster). Shock can occur whenever there is a perceived suspended drama, with tension, suspense or surprise being the primary emotions felt by the audience as part of the situation (Dirks). However, the term is most often used in regards to an audience’s perception in dramatic works such as film. One often experiences

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    Research Into Obedience There has been two main studies into obedience the first of these in 1963 by Milgram who advertised in the local paper for men of various ages and from all walks of life. He told the volunteers that they would take part in a test of memory and learning and would get paid $4.50 for the hour they were in the experiment. When they arrived at Yale University they were introduced to two people one of which was ‘Jack Williams’ who was wearing a grey

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    the reader confronts the reality of the soldiers’ atrocious mental state as they returned home filled with terror and nightmares of the battlefield. The poet’s main objective of presenting the characterization that will be further explained is to shock the reader with the graphic and brutal scenes the soldiers had to experience during combat and expose the physical and mental consequences of war, highlighting the destruction and terror it brought to humanity. As to the why of this purpose, Owen,

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    In the beginning of the story, John Updike uses the three girls’ swimsuits to symbolize their disregard for social norms. The base of the entire story is about the girls being dressed indecently in a grocery store. These girls are in their teen to young adult years, so they all must be aware that that is not acceptable to wear bikinis into a grocery store. Therefore, the only other way to explain why they would be in just their swimsuits is, that they don’t care that maybe this isn't socially acceptable

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    Kokoro Trauma

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    There are many types of trauma that can affect an adolescent and without the proper treatment the juvenile can have difficulty adapting and developing into adulthood. This situation is animated in Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. This Japanese novel centers around a university student and a man whom he refers to as Sensei. The student, also the narrator of this story, goes on a journey to reveal the secrets behind this enigmatic teacher who lives a reclusive and idle life with his wife. Sensei is weary

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