The client will be discharged on multiple antihypertensive medications. The nurse has reviewed the medications with the client. However, the client still has questions regarding the interactions and precautions for the medications
Whom should the nurse contact for the client prior to discharge? 1. Pharmacist
2. Physician
3. Fitness leader
4. Dietician
Pharmacist
Rationale: The pharmacist should be consulted for the hypertensive client who continues to have questions regarding medications; the pharmacist would be the most knowledgeable regarding the interactions and precautions. The health care provider will be collaboratively involved in the client's care. The fitness leader and dietician will potentially play important roles in the management of this client's illness, but would not be the experts for this client's support regarding medications.
You might also like to view...
The child is admitted to the hospital unit for injuries. The mother's boyfriend is suspected of child abuse. The nurse's primary role, in addition to reporting to the proper authorities, is:
1. Gathering information about how the injuries occurred. 2. Collecting evidence against the suspected abuser. 3. Encouraging the child to talk about his experience. 4. Protecting the child from further injury.
Your male client states, "I haven't left my house for six years.". As a nurse, you know that the most helpful theory for dealing with this problem would come from:
A) Gender-bias theory. B) Interpersonal theory. C) Behavioral theory. D) Intrapersonal theory.
A child and the child's family visit a psychiatric outpatient setting because the parent is concerned about the child's behavior at school. The child scores 65 on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale
The nurse interprets this finding as which of the following? A) The child requires inpatient therapy. B) The child is experiencing homicidal thoughts. C) The child is functioning well in the area of school. D) The child can be treated effectively as an outpatient.
A 31-year-old woman who is at high risk for diabetes is at 18 weeks' gestation. During her first antenatal visit, which is the accurate approach to evaluate the client for diabetes?
1. Conduct screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus as soon as possible. 2. Begin serial testing of the client's serum glucose and HA1c at 24 weeks' gestation. 3. If diabetes is diagnosed, consider this condition to be gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). 4. Recognize HA1c equal to or greater than 4.5% or a fasting plasma glucose level equal to or greater than 90 mg/dL as being diagnostic of diabetes.