The nurse is reinforcing teaching provided to a patient with open-angle glaucoma. What is most important for the nurse to include in the patient teaching?
a. Regardless of treatment, peripheral vision will be eventually lost.
b. Compliance with drug therapy is essential to prevent loss of vision.
c. Damage to the eye caused by glaucoma is reversible in early stages.
d. Eye pain is experienced until the optic nerve atrophies, causing blindness.
ANS: B
Lifelong compliance with drug therapy is essential to prevent loss of vision. A. It is not definite that the patient will lose peripheral or any vision. C. Vision changes cannot be corrected with eyeglasses. D. Eye pain and optic nerve damage is associated with acute angle glaucoma.
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