The nurse differentiates for the family active and palliative care, in that active care is:
a. centered on symptom control.
b. focused on treatment for a cure.
c. not concerned with dying.
d. covered by health insurance.
Question 2
The nurse explains that vitamin K by injection is given to the newborn at risk for hemorrhage because:
a. most mothers have a vitamin K deficiency that develops during pregnancy.
b. bacteria that synthesize vitamin K are not present in newborns.
c. vitamin K prevents the synthesis of prothrombin.
d. the newborn does not store vitamin K.
Trapdoor spider (family: Ctenizidae), an ambush predator.
A nurse communicates with her non–English-speaking patient through an interpreter
Use and care of the stethoscope
The Mulleta family of Ethiopia, described in the opening vignette.
Mechanisms of active and passive immunity.