A Patient Admitted with Possible Stroke Has Been Aphasic for 3

question 30

Multiple Choice

A patient admitted with possible stroke has been aphasic for 3 hours,and his current blood pressure (BP) is 174/94 mm Hg. Which order by the health care provider should the nurse question?

• A)Keep head of bed elevated at least 30 degrees.
• B)Infuse normal saline intravenously at 75 mL/hr.
• C)Start a labetalol drip to keep BP less than 140/90 mm Hg.
• D)Administer tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) intravenously per protocol.

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Definitions:

α-D-Ribopyranose

An aldopentose sugar in the pyranose form where the α-configuration at the anomeric carbon is specific to the D-ribose structure.

Ordinal Data

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Nominal Data

Nominal data represents categories that cannot be logically ordered or ranked, where each category is mutually exclusive and there is no inherent arithmetic relationship among them.

Ordinal Data

A type of categorical data with a set order or ranking among the categories but without a defined distance between categories.