A client is complaining of severe chest pain became unresponsive and the cardiac monitor shows the heart rhythm below. What will be the most appropriate action

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Why use a specific pain intensity scale in the critical care unit?

Provider's Order: Lactated Ringer's 2500 ml over 1 day

What is the hourly rate?

NOTE:

• DO NOT write the unit/s of measurement
• Enter your answer in whole number, example 133

A nurse is paying particular attention to the spiritual needs of a client today. The nurse identifies that spiritual beliefs can have a positive effect on general health of a client in which ways? Select all that apply.

Why is restraining a competent patient against his or her wishes considered an intentional tort?

A 45-year-old recovering heroin abuser is status post lumbar fusion and is admitted to the intensive care unit for pain management isses related to a diagnosis of degenerative disk disease and associated peripheral neuropathy. The client who is currently prescribed oxycodone/paracetamol 5 mg/325 mg two tablets every 4 hours around the clock, gabapentin 300 mg four times per day methadone 10 mg twice daily. The client is awake alert, and oriented X4 with stable vitals is able to move lower extremities bilaterally, but reports decreased sensations in feet bilaterally and reporting incisional pain as a 10 of 10 on the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)

Select the medication that can be appropriately prescribed and administered to help address the client's addiction maintenance, and postoperative pain.

The nurse is teaching a group of senior nursing students about acute pain. Which statement accurately describes the duration of acute pain?

An adult client with third-degree AV block is admitted to the cardiac care unit and placed on continuous cardiac monitoring. What rhythm characteristic will the ECG most likely show?

A client is admitted to the emergency room with a respiratory rate of 7/min. Arterial blood gases (ABG) reveal the following values. Which of the following is an appropriate analysis of the ABGs? 

- pH: 7.22 (acidotic) 

- PaCO₂: 68 mm Hg (elevated, indicating respiratory cause) 

- PaO₂: 78 mm Hg (mild hypoxemia) 

- Saturation: 80% (low oxygenation) 

- Bicarbonate (HCO₃⁻): 26 mEq/L (normal, indicating no metabolic compensation)

Which therapeutic technique may be used to enhance coping in the critical care environment?

The nurse in the ED is reviewing the EKG strip of a client who has prolonged vomiting. Which of the following abnormalities on the client's EKG should the nurse interpret as a sign of hypokalemia?