The nurse is providing discharge teaching for a client who is being dismissed with prescriptions for a bronchodilator inhaler and a corticosteroid inhaler
What information should the nurse provide regarding the dosage schedule for these two medications? A)
Use the inhalers on alternate days, not on the same day.
B)
It makes no difference which inhaler is used first.
C)
Always use the corticosteroid inhaler first.
D)
Use the bronchodilator first.
D
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A) Reassess the patient's allergy status. B) Flush the patient's IV tubing. C) Aspirate 1 to 2 mL of blood. D) Clean the area around the patient's IV cannula with normal saline.
Suppose a nurse researcher were interested in learning whether a self-administered health history questionnaire yielded data of comparable quality to a personal interview health history form. The researcher would be doing a:
A) Secondary analysis B) Clinical trial C) Methodologic study D) Survey
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1. The entertainment industry 2. Presidential elections 3. Social movements 4. Natural disasters
A client has an epicardial pacemaker. The nurse observes the presence of a pacing spike but no QRS complex on the client's electrocardiograph (ECG) tracing. How does the nurse interpret this event?
a. Loss of capture b. Ventricular fibrillation c. Failure to sense d. A normal tracing