A patient is admitted to the emergency room with combativeness, hypertension, tremors, and hallucinations. His friends state he has taken 10 to 20 Adderall tablets. What treatment should the nurse be prepared to administer?
A) Gastric lavage
B) IV mannitol
C) Fluid restriction
D) IV phenytoin (Dilantin)
B
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A patient underwent an open bowel resection 2 days ago and the nurse's most recent assessment of the patient's abdominal incision reveals that it is dehiscing. What factor should the nurse suspect may have caused the dehiscence?
A) The patient's surgical dressing was changed yesterday and today. B) The patient has vomited three times in the past 12 hours. C) The patient has begun voiding on the commode instead of a bedpan. D) The patient used PCA until this morning.
Which job responsibilities indicate that a nurse has supervisory capacity? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. The nurse makes clinical judgments about client care. 2. The nurse assigns a nurse assistant to care for a team of clients. 3. The nurse discusses client care with the supervising physician. 4. The nurse hires staff to manage units. 5. The nurse retains responsibility for the actions of nurses assigned to provide client care.
A nurse administering valproic acid to a client should monitor the client for increased effects of valproic acid when which of the following medications are initiated? Select all that apply
A) Cimetidine (Tagamet) B) Amitriptyline (Elavil) C) Metformin (Glucophage) D) Aspirin E) Lisinopril (Prinivil)
A young man is brought to the emergency department (ED) by friends, who say they found him at his home unresponsive. The prescriber suspects that he was poisoned. During the assessment, the man mumbles a word and becomes comatose
The nurse should immediately prepare to ad-minister a. intravenous flumazenil (Romazicon). b. syrup of ipecac. c. activated charcoal. d. intravenous dextrose.