A primigravida client with severe gestational hypertension is admitted to the labor unit. She has been receiving magnesium sulfate IV for 3 hours. The latest data reveals deep tendon reflexes (DTRs) of +1, blood pressure of 150/100 mm Hg, a pulse of 92 beats/minute, a respiratory rate of 10 breaths/minute, and urine output of 20 mL/ hour. Which action would be most appropriate?
1. Continue monitoring the client.
2. Stop the magnesium sulfate infusion.
3. Increase the infusion rate by 5 gtt/minute.
4. Decrease the infusion rate by 5 gtt/minute.

Explain the nursing actions which are the basis for safe, competent nursing care and the underlying principles of each competency.

Drinking alcohol at a faster rate will not affect a body’s absorption of alcohol

You isolate an infectious substance capable of causing disease in plants, but you do not know whether the infectious agent is a bacterium, virus, viroid, or prion. you have four methods at your disposal to analyze the substance and determine the nature of the infectious agent.i. treat the substance with enzymes that destroy all nucleic acids and then determine whether the substance is still infectious.ii. microscope.iii. culture the substance on nutritive medium, away from any plant cells.iv. treat the sample with proteases that digest all proteins and then determining whether the substance is still infectious.if you already know that the infectious agent was either bacterial or viral, which method(s) listed above would allow you to distinguish between these two possibilities? a) ib) iic) ii or iiid) iv