The patient has not defecated for 24 hours after an appendectomy. The patient’s abdomen is distended and the patient reports nausea. Upon auscultation, the nurse notes absent bowel sounds after 5 minutes of auscultation. Which action does the nurse take first?

The patient presents to the clinic for a check-up and is noted to have a temperature of 35.2°C. The patient denies being feeling cold or hot, recent illnesses, or prolonged exposure to the cold. The nurse suspects further testing will reveal a lesion in which area of the brain?

A patient recently diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis asks the nurse how this disease occurs. While the etiology of ALS is unknown, the nurse bases the response on an understanding of epigenetic effects on which protein?