The teaching for a patient who is taking tamsulosin (Flomax) to reduce urinary obstruction due to benign prostatic hyperplasia will include which of these?
a. Fluids need to be restricted while on this medication.
b. Take the medication with breakfast to promote the maximum effects of the drug.
c. Get up slowly from a sitting or lying position.
d. Blood pressure must be monitored because the medication may cause hypertension.
ANS: C
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A psychiatric–mental health nurse has been named in a malpractice suit in which certain criteria have to be demonstrated by the client's legal team. Which of the following lists includes the correct criteria?
A) Duty of care, professional performance, injury related to the nurse's action, action foreseeably could have caused the injury, and proven injury B) Duty of care, professional performance, injury related to the nurse's action, failure to document injury, and proven injury C) Professional performance, injury related to the nurse's action, action foreseeably could have caused the injury, and proven injury D) Duty of care, professional performance, injury related to the nurse's action, and action foreseeably could have caused the injury