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A client admitted with multiple traumatic injuries receives massive fluid resuscitation. Later, the physician suspects that the client has aspirated stomach contents. The nurse knows that this client is at highest risk for:

a) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). b) bronchial asthma. c) adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). d) renal failure.

A medical laboratory supervisor has been spending 20 hours per week working in the lab as a technologist because of a staffing shortage. If she work more than 40 hours per week, the laboratory ____.

A. pays no overtime because she is an exempt employee B. pays overtime only if she puts in more than 40 hours of technologist work C. pays overtime of 1.5 times her supervisor salary D. pays overtime of 1.5 times a technologist's salary