The client is experiencing extrapyramidal side effects from taking antipsychotic drugs. Which medication may be used to counteract these side effects?
A) Haloperidol (Haldol)
B) Chlorpromazine (Thorazine)
C) Fluphenazine (Prolixin)
D) Benztropine (Cogentin)
D
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A patient telephones a nurse to report the onset of muscle pain and weakness. The patient is taking gemfibrozil with a statin. The nurse should be concerned about the development of:
a. peripheral neuropathy. b. hypothyroidism. c. myopathy. d. hepatic disease.
A nurse intern asks the unit manager how nurses can become more politically involved in the consumer movement in health care to support the advancement of nursing service
The nurse manager responds by saying that the majority of nurses can accomplish this by: a. becoming a member of their professional organization. b. becoming a lobbyist to interested government agencies. c. supporting legislation for more government control. d. supporting physicians to direct health care policy.
An older adult female client is being seen in the physician's office for a possible fractured tibia. The nurse asks how that happened, and the client begins a long discourse about how much it snowed last night,
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