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A nursing student is caring for a 35-year-old patient who is suffering from kidney failure and is receiving peritoneal dialysis.
 
  He remembers that peritoneal dialysis works by instilling a solution into the abdomen that contains dextrose that will pull wastes and extra fluid into the abdominal cavity. What is the name of this process? A. Diffusion
  B. Osmosis
  C. Filtration
  D. Active transport

Question 2

A student nurse is with a medical unit during this clinical rotation. She is administering an enema with her instructor in the room. The patient states that they can no longer hold the enema solution.
 
  The student nurse acknowledges the patient's request and begins to tell the patient that he can go to the bathroom to expel the enema. The instructor suggests that the patient wait a few minutes to give the enema solution time to be absorbed into the bowel. In this situation the student nurse demonstrates what level of critical thinking according to Kataoka-Yahiro and Saylor's model? A. Level 1: Basic
  B. Level 2: Complex
  C. Level 3: Commitment
  D. The student nurse is not demonstrating critical thinking.



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Answer to Question 1

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Fluids and solutes move across cell membranes by four processes: diffusion, osmosis, filtration, and active transport. Osmosis is the movement of a solvent such as water across a semipermeable membrane from an area of lower concentration to one that has a higher concentration.

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At the basic level of critical thinking a learner trusts that experts have the right answers for every problem. Thinking is concrete and based on a set of rules or principles.




wrbasek0

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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


recede

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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