When counseling clients regarding the use of antidiarrheal drugs such as Imodium anti-diarrheal and Kaopectate, the nurse practitioner advises patients to
A. Use all the medication
B. Do not use for possible infectious diarrhea
C. Use should exceed one week for effectiveness
D. These drugs provide exactly the same pharmaceutical effects
B
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The antigen-antibody reaction is an example of what type of immunity?
a. Humoral b. Cellular c. Innate d. Passive
The nurse is planning and providing the care of a patient with heart failure (HF). What will be the overall goals of management for this patient? Select all that apply
A) Improve functional status B) Increase cardiac contractility C) Extend survival D) Decrease pulmonary venous pressure E) Relieve patient symptoms
Which patient statement indicates to the nurse that more teaching is needed about multimodal pain management?
A) "This method will provide better pain control." B) "I will need a lower dose of each drug." C) "It reduces the need for opioid drugs." D) "It may increase the severity of the side effects I experience."
Acid secretion and gastrin-induced secretion is inhibited by blocking ________.
A. cholinergic and H2-receptors B. adrenergic and H1-receptors C. cholinergic and H1-receptors D. adrenergic and H2-receptors