A patient who is recovering from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) has bacterial pneumonia with a positive sputum culture. Which organism is most likely responsible for this patient’s DKA?

The patient is brought to the emergency department (ED) after falling down and being briefly unconsciousness. The patient’s wife is with him and tells the nurse in private, “He’s not been like himself. He’s verbally abusive, now, and mean. He was always the sweetest man I ever knew.” The nurse suspects testing will reveal a lesion in which lobe of the brain?

The 24-year-old female patient presents to the emergency department with hematemesis. She rarely drinks alcohol and has no known medical conditions. She is afebrile and her laboratory tests are normal, though she has signs of dehydration. The physician diagnoses the patient with Mallory-Weiss Syndrome. The nurse assesses the patient for which conditions?