The nurse is assigned a patient with Hodgkin’s lymphoma undergoing initial treatment. On the patient’s second day, he develops an acute painful swelling and erythema of the right gastrocnemius. The following morning, the patient develops an acute shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. Within minutes, the patient loses consciousness and dies. Which of the following interventions would most likely have prevented this patient’s death?

The patient has a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) for the long-term administration of parenteral nutrition, oxacillin, and gentamicin. Which assessment findings, if present in the patient, indicate the patient is experiencing a complication of the PICC line? Select all that apply.

The nurse counsels the patient with prostate cancer to choose transurethral resection of the prostate based on which characteristic?