The nurse, preparing to assess a client's heart rate, realizes that the cardiac centers controlling heart rate are located in the:
a. hypothalamus.
b. brain stem.
c. lungs.
d. coronary arteries.
Question 2
The nurse is determining the mechanism in which a client is losing body heat. The one mechanism, insensible heat loss is:
a. loss of heat to an object in contact with the body.
b. loss of heat in the form of infrared rays.
c. loss of heat through the continuous, unnoticed water loss that occurs with vaporization.
d. movement of heat away from the body's surface.