The wife of a client with angina pectoris calls the health care provider's office and reports to the nurse that her husband is experiencing chest pain and has taken 2 sublingual nitroglycerin tablets 5 minutes apart, with no relief. The nurse tells the client's wife to:
A. Have her husband rest and, if no relief is obtained, call back
B. Discuss the situation with the doctor, who will call her as soon as he gets into the office
C. Call Emergency Medical Services to take her husband to the emergency department (ED) immediately
D. Give her husband a third tablet and, if no relief is obtained, call an ambulance to have him transported to the ED
Ans: C. Call Emergency Medical Services to take her husband to the emergency department (ED) immediately
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