What should every family's emergency preparedness plan include?

a. a backup generator
b. an evacuation plan
c. two cars with full tanks of gas
d. a mobile device with a disaster app

Anurse is assessing clients on medical surgical unit which adult client should the nurse identify as being at greater risk for insensible water loss?

Which of the following does not cause blindness? a. cataractsb. glaucomac. osteoarthritisd. diabetes

An 80-year-old woman comes to the urgent care clinic with dyspnoea on exertion. on physical examination, her blood pressure is 100/70, and her pulse is 75. she has no pulsus paradoxus. her jugular veins are distended, and she has distant heart sounds. in addition, she has extra third and fourth heart sounds. her liver is enlarged, and she has pedal oedema. she has occasional premature ventricular contractions on her electrocardiogram. a chest x-ray reveals clear lung fields with a dilated cardiac silhouette. her echocardiogram reveals ventricular walls with a "speckled pattern". which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? - alcoholic cardiomyopathy- amyloidosis- haemochromatosis- tuberculosis- viral myocarditis