The nurse would counsel clients who have experienced optic neuritis that they should see a physician regularly because they are at high risk for
a. diabetes mellitus.
b. glaucoma.
c. multiple sclerosis.
d. permanent blindness.
C
There is a close association between optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis.
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a. Only one parent carries the CF gene. b. Both parents are carriers of the CF gene. c. The inheritance pattern is multifactorial. d. The result is probably a genetic mutation.
A nurse is assigned to care for clients in a primary healthcare center. Which should the nurse identify as the highest goal of service in a primary healthcare center?
A) Monitor and control air quality B) Decrease the potential for illness C) Inspect meat and other foods D) Improve the health of pregnant women
The nurse instructs a group of adults with young families that the five general principles for the treatment of acute poisoning are:
1. modification of lifestyle, health teaching, antidote therapy, symptomatic therapy, absorbent administration, and dialysis. 2. antidote therapy, decontamination, neutralization, prevention of absorption, and increase in the rate of excretion. 3. identification of poison, symptomatic therapy, neutralization, dialysis, and absorbent administration. 4. identification of poison, modification of lifestyle, health teaching, decontamination, and increase in the rate of excretion.
A patient with chronic congestive heart failure has repeated hospitalizations in spite of ongoing treatment with hydrochlorothiazide (HydroDIURIL) and digoxin
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