The patient with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) presents to the clinic for a follow-up visit. The nurse provides education to the patient about which cardiovascular complication the patient is most likely to experience related to the disease process?
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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?
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The nurse is providing discharge teaching to an individual who suffered a spinal cord injury at T11. Which of the following statements by the patient indicates a need for further teaching?
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