You have been assigned to care for Mr. Alvarez, a 74-year-old client being treated for a urinary tract infection. He suffered a cerebrovascular accident (stroke) 6 months ago and has had difficulty ambulating and attending to his own needs because of right-sided weakness. He is thin for height, incontinent of foul smelling urine, and has non-blanchable erythema on his coccyx and peritoneal area. He is alert and oriented to person, place, and time. He has decreased sensation on his entire right side. He spends most of his time in bed or sitting in a chair.
1.What data suggests that Mr. Alvarez is particularly vulnerable to pressure sore development?
2 What additional information does the nurse need in order to use the Braden Scale to determine his potential for pressure injury development?
3.How should the nurse stage the noted areas of erythema?
4.Based on the information provided in the case scenario, what nursing diagnoses are appropriate for this patient?
5.What independent nursing interventions can the nurse provide to protect him from further skin breakdown?
In: Nursing
Scenario: A 74-year-old male, retired accountant, with a long-standing history of hypertension and atherosclerosis, begins to exhibit some personality changes, deterioration in grooming, trouble understanding news events, and difficulty managing personal finances. He also stopped attending social events and dropped out of his chess club. His wife of 50 years becomes concerned and schedules an appointment with his healthcare provider, who diagnoses him with Vascular Dementia, Alzheimer’s type. Arrangements have been made for a visiting RN to come to the house once weekly. Initial Discussion Post: Address the following: In what stage of Alzheimer’s disease is this client? What criteria did you use to determine this? What are 3 priority RN assessments when home visits are made? What are some anticipated caregiver issues that this client’s spouse will personally experience? List and describe 3 intercollaborative referrals that may be needed for this client within the next year or so.
In: Nursing
Patient introduction: F. E. is a 74-year-old woman who comes to the medical clinic with concerns related to various “spots” on
her face. She says they have been there for a while and she thought they were just “age spots” but got
concerned after her friend was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma
Provide a nursing care plan for F.E. Provide a two nursing diagnosis.
Nursing Care Plan 1
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Nursing Care Plan 2
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Assessment |
Nursing Diagnosis |
Goals/Plan |
Nursing intervention |
Evaluation |
Please fill out the table and cite the reference. Thanks
In: Nursing
Using the Black/Scholes Option Pricing Model, calculate the value of the call option given:
S= 74; X=70; T=6 months; =.50; Rf =10%
What is the intrinsic value of the call?
What stock price is necessary to break-even?
If volatility were to decrease, the value of the call would ___________?
If the exercise price would increase, the value of the call would ___________?
If the time to maturity were 3-months, the value of the call would ___________?
If the stock price were $62, the value of the call would _________?
What is the maximum value that a call can take? Why?
In: Finance
10.2.9
An article in Radio Engineering and Electronic Physics (1980, Vol. 25, pp. 74-79) investigated the behavior of a stochastic generator in the presence of external noise. The number of periods was measured in a sample of 100 trains for each of two different levels of noise voltage, 100 and 150 mV. For 100 mV, the mean number of periods in a train was 7.9 with s1 = 2.6. For 150 mV, the mean was 6.9 with s2 = 2.4.
Use α = 0.01 and assume that each population is normally distributed and the two population variances are equal.
(a) It was originally suspected that raising noise voltage would reduce mean number of periods. Do the data support this claim?Choose the answer from the menu in accordance to the question statementChoose the answer from the menu in accordance to the question statement
No.Yes.
(b) Calculate a confidence interval to answer the question in part (a).
μ1−μ2≥Enter your answer in accordance to the question statementEnter your answer in accordance to the question statement. Round your answer to three decimal places (e.g. 98.765).
In: Statistics and Probability
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Hero Manufacturing has 8.8 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current share price is $74 and the book value per share is $5. The company also has two bond issues outstanding. The first bond issue has a face value of $85 million, a coupon rate of 6.2 percent and sells for 109.1 percent of par. The second issue has a face value of $70.3 million, a coupon rate of 8.1 percent and sells for 112.9 percent of par. The first issue matures in 9 years, the second in 25 years. |
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Suppose the company’s stock has a beta of 1.3. The risk-free rate is 3.1 percent and the market risk premium is 7.2 percent. Assume that the overall cost of debt is the weighted average implied by the two outstanding debt issues. Both bonds make semiannual payments. The tax rate is 25 percent. What is the company’s WACC? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
In: Finance
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Situation 4-1 |
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During the winter of 1973-74, a general system of wage and price controls (including a price ceiling on gasoline) was in force in the United States. At the beginning of 1974, some oil-producing countries imposed an oil embargo (a legal prohibition on commerce) on the West. In the spring of 1974, price controls were abolished. |
Refer to Situation 4-1. Because price controls were in effect at
the time the embargo occurred, an economist would have most likely
predicted that
a)the number of dollars one would need to pay at the pump (legally) for a full tank of gasoline would increase sharply.
b)the number of dollars one would need to pay at the pump (legally) for a full tank of gasoline would decline sharply.
c)long waiting lines and black markets would appear.
d)a surplus of gasoline would result.
In: Economics
Read Case 2.2, “The Ethics of Human Resource Management” by Elizabeth D. Scott (pages 74–87), in Strategic Human Resources Management.
Hiring managers and recruiters sometimes face ethical dilemmas when selecting final candidates for an open position. At times, conflicts of interest can arise where friends, relatives, neighbors, alma mater graduates, and so on become applicants for a position a hiring manager or recruiter is filling.
With this in mind, post a response of at least 150 words to the following question:
In: Operations Management
12,Western Electric has 29,500 shares of common stock outstanding at a price per share of $74 and a rate of return of 13.25 percent. The firm has 7,050 shares of 7.30 percent preferred stock outstanding at a price of $92.50 per share. The preferred stock has a par value of $100. The outstanding debt has a total face value of $389,000 and currently sells for 108.5 percent of face. The yield to maturity on the debt is 7.93 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital if the tax rate is 39 percent?
In: Finance
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Dinklage Corp. has 8 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current share price is $74, and the book value per share is $7. The company also has two bond issues outstanding. The first bond issue has a face value of $95 million, a coupon rate of 7 percent, and sells for 97 percent of par. The second issue has a face value of $80 million, a coupon rate of 6 percent, and sells for 109 percent of par. The first issue matures in 23 years, the second in 6 years. Both bonds make semiannual coupon payments. |
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What are the company's capital structure weights on a book value basis? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 4 decimal places, e.g., .1616.) |
| b. | What are the company’s capital structure weights on a market value basis? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 4 decimal places, e.g., .1616.) |
In: Finance