For clinical vocabularies to be understood by nurses, medical coders, pharmacists, and physicians in various specialties,
they must

use only Latin-based terminology

be defined in every medical text book.

meet needs for different professions.

have obvious and intuitive spellings.

According to the ahdi, use a _ when joining numbers or letters to form a word or phrase, or abbreviation

Anurse on a medical unit is administering heparin by continuous iv infusion to a client who has a pulmonary embolism. the client’s most recent aptt is 70 seconds. which of the following actions should the nurse take? a. increase the iv infusion rate. b. decrease the iv infusion rate. c. discontinue the iv infusion. d. continue the iv infusion.

Which of the following instruments is often used to grasp the intestines? a. kelly b. crile c. babcock d. ochsner