An important concept to teach patients who take expectorants, antitussives, decongestants, or bronchodilators is that:
1. these are all over-the-counter medications that must be used with caution.
2. medication effectiveness will be enhanced with adequate patient hydration of more than 2 quarts of water per day.
3. these preparations frequently cause adverse effects, and the patient should not take them without consulting a physician.
4. patients may expect to develop fever, swollen lymph nodes, and tightness in the chest when taking these products.
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The patient should drink lots of fluid, especially water, which makes the mucus thinner and helps the medication work better.
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The nurse is having lunch with colleagues from a medical-surgical unit. One of the medical-surgical nurses states, "I don't know how you can work with psych patients! They scare the heck out of me." How should the nurse respond?
1. "It's not that bad, and most of the clients are not that scary." 2. "The clients I work with have physical disorders just like the clients you work with." 3. "I don't know; sometimes I wonder what I am doing." 4. "I must have better nursing skills than you do."
The category of drugs that treat manic phase of bipolar disorder are called _______________
ANS:
While assessing a patient from the Jewish culture, the nurse learns that the patient believes that an illness is being caused by another soul. What is this health belief considered?
A. Dybbuk B. Kayn aynhoreh C. Szatan D. Aberglobin
Empiricism refers to:
A) Making generalizations from specific observations B) Deducing specific predictions from generalizations C) Gathering evidence about real-world phenomena through the senses D) Verifying the assumptions on which the study was based