Because of their site of action, bile acid sequestering resins:
1. Should be administered separately from other drugs by at least 4 hours
2. May increase the risk for bleeding
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2
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The most difficult to change is:
a. attitudes. b. group behavior. c. knowledge. d. individual behavior.
The nurse is caring for a non–English-speaking child and family. Which should the nurse consider when using an interpreter?
a. Pose several questions at a time. b. Use medical jargon when possible. c. Communicate directly with family members when asking questions. d. Carry on some communication in English with the interpreter about the family's needs.
A patient with asthma asks why he must take regularly scheduled systemic drugs when he can stop several asthma attacks each day within a few minutes of their onset by using a short-acting beta agonist inhaler. What is the nurse's best response?
a. "Frequent asthma attacks, even if they are halted relatively quickly, damage the bronchial tissues over time." b. "If asthma attacks are uncontrolled they lead to the eventual development of lung cancer and emphysema." c. "Using only short-acting beta agonists will lead to drug resistance and then the drug won't work when you need it." d. "Inhaled beta agonist drugs only treat the constriction aspects of asthma and do not help the inflammatory aspects of the disease."