The 59-year-old female reports vaginal bleeding. She experienced menarche at 12 years of age and menopause at 56. Endometrial carcinoma is found with endometrial biopsy. Further testing reveals no lymph node involvement or metastasis. The nurse prepares the patient for which initial therapy?  

The patient receiving mechanical ventilation opens the eyes, attempts to talk, and appears to be in distress. Which action does the nurse take first?

The nurse is assigned to a patient with chronic alcoholism and alcoholic cirrhosis. Examination of the patient is significant for dilated tortuous veins around his umbilicus and internal hemorrhoids. On the morning of his third day of the current admission, the patient acutely begins to vomit up large amounts of blood. Which describes the pathophysiology that most likely caused this event?