A student nurse asks a nurse about a drug that has been prescribed to decrease the effects of an endogenous chemical. The nurse understands this drug is placed in which category?
A. An agonist
B. A partial agonist
C. An antagonist
D. An agonist-antagonist
Answer: C
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Verity Jones is receiving radiation therapy after a mastectomy. The nurse practices good hand hygiene as she knows the patient is at great risk for infection due to
A) decreased platelet function. B) impaired monocyte phagocyte system. C) impaired phagocyte functioning. D) impaired cell-mediated immune response.
_________ is a prostatic pain without evidence of infection or inflammation
ANS:
Which of the following best describes when case management is implemented for hospitalized patients?
a. Immediately on admission b. Immediately on discharge c. When a nurse recognizes the need and makes the appropriate referral d. When the patient is assigned a case manager
A victim of a sexual assault sits in the emergency department rocking back and forth and repeatedly saying, "I can't believe I've been raped.". This behavior is characteristic of:
a. the acute phase reaction. b. the angry stage of rape-trauma syndrome. c. a delayed reaction to rape-trauma syndrome. d. the long-term phase of rape-trauma syndrome.