A patient has been prescribed sildenafil citrate. What should the nurse teach the patient about this medication?
A) Sexual stimulation is not needed to obtain an erection.
B) The drug should be taken 1 hour prior to intercourse.
C) Facial flushing or headache should be reported to the health care provider immediately.
D) A high dose may result in a permanent change of vision.
B
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a. "Can you count backward from 100 by 7s?" b. "Do you have any brothers and sisters?" c. "What would you do if you lost your house key?" d. "What year is this?"
The nurse is instructing a patient who is experiencing diarrhea associated with a microorganism not to use an antidiarrheal medication. The patient asks, "Why can't I take something to stop the diarrhea?" How should the nurse respond to this patient?
1. "Antidiarrheal medication slows down the elimination of the microorganism causing the diarrhea." 2. "Antibiotics are always used to treat the microorganisms but antibiotics may worsen diarrhea." 3. "The potassium you are taking will help to slow down the diarrhea." 4. "Your physician does not like to use antidiarrheal medications."
The nurse is preparing to administer a drug and learns that it is an indirect-acting cholinergic agonist. The nurse understands that this drug
a. acts on muscarinic receptors. b. acts on nicotinic receptors. c. inhibits cholinesterase. d. inhibits cholinergic receptors.
The client is caring for a client who is prescribed a thrombolytic drug. Which item is the client's history does not support the use of this medication?
1. Pulmonary embolism 2. Acute MI 3. Postoperative bleeding 4. Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)