The nurse is providing care for a patient newly diagnosed with systolic heart failure (HF). What medications should the nurse anticipate administering?
A) Beta-blockers
B) Calcium channel blockers
C) Alpha agonists
D) Angiotensin prohibiters
A
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A nurse is planning to provide education for a family who has a child with sickle-cell anemia. For the prevention of a sickle-cell crisis, the nurse teaches the family the importance of avoiding which condition?
1. Respiratory infection and dehydration 2. Midrange altitudes 3. Weight loss without dehydration 4. Overhydration
Health care providers can confine or restrain mentally ill persons only in order to
1. protect the public. 2. ensure client cooperation. 3. protect the client's safety and prevent in-jury. 4. intimidate others in the client's environ-ment.
A nurse is teaching a nursing student about the two classes of adrenergic agonist drugs. Which statement by the nursing student indicates understanding of the teaching?
a. "Catecholamines may be given orally." b. "Catecholamines often require continuous infusion to be effective." c. "Noncatecholamines do not cross the blood-brain barrier." d. "Noncatecholamines undergo rapid de-gradation by monoamine oxidase."
What will the nurse include in the discharge teaching plan for a patient with PVD? (Select all that apply.)
a. Intermittent cold applications to the extremities b. Heat therapy c. Stress reduction techniques d. An exercise program e. Bed positioning techniques