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A nurse is caring for a 68-year-old woman who has just returned to her room after a gastroscopy. Prior to beginning the procedure, lidocaine was given to numb her throat. Which of the following is the priority nursing intervention?
 
  A) Check blood pressure and heart rate every 30 minutes for the next 12 hours.
  B) Ask the patient if she needs to urinate.
  C) Instruct the patient and family that she should not eat or drink for at least 1 hour.
  D) Allow the patient to ambulate only with assistance.

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Paramedics have brought a patient to the emergency department with a suspected heroin overdose. The nurse should recognize that the patient's most acute threat to health at this time is
 
  A) hypokalemia or hyponatremia.
  B) acute gastrointestinal bleed.
  C) increased intracranial pressure.
  D) respiratory depression.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

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Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
Wow, this really help

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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