The nurse is providing care to a patient recently diagnosed with depression. The patient is also diagnosed with epilepsy. Which antidepressant would the nurse question if prescribed by the healthcare provider?
1) Amitriptyline
2) Buproprion
3) Escitalopram
4) Fluoxetine
ANS: 3
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A group of students are reviewing material in preparation for a test on the evolution of environmental health. Which of the following indicates the need for additional study?
A) Loss of the advances in sanitation by the Romans probably led to outbreaks of cholera. B) Growth of cities led to the spread of infections disease in medieval times. C) Environmental connection with disease spread was recognized in the early 1200s. D) The sanitary movement calling for change began in the late 19th century.
The final step in the "nursing process" is ____________________
ANS:
A nurse is notified when a patient, newly admitted with liver and gallbladder disease, complains of pain in the right middle back and asks for some pain medication. What is the best interpreta-tion of this reported assessment by the nurse?
a. The patient is just complaining to see whether the staff will give out pain medi-cations. b. The patient has referred pain sensations. The nurse should follow orders for admi-nistering pain medication. c. The patient has an injury on the back from an unknown cause that needs immediate assessment. d. The patient is a chronic complainer with anxieties about his condition.
The client with lymphoma asks his nurse why his disease treatment regimen includes radiation and surgery as well as chemotherapy, when his 16-year-old female cousin only had chemotherapy for leukemia. What is the nurse's best response?
A. "Radiation is not used as therapy in girls and women so as not to disrupt their childbearing ability." B. "Lymphomas can form discrete tumors that can be removed by surgery or treated locally with radiation, but leukemic cells are more widespread." C. "Your disease is probably more widespread and advanced than your cousin's was, requiring additional types of intensive therapy for cure." D. "Lymphomas can be cured using multiple therapies and leukemia cannot be cured, only controlled with lifelong injections of chemotherapy."