CNS ___________ that cause drowsiness and promote sleep are called hypnotics.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: depressants
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A new graduate nurse learns a quicker way to set up and initiate an IV. This graduate nurse still follows safe practice, but implements changes that help with time management
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a. iron. b. zinc. c. copper. d. chromium.
The nurse is managing care for a group of patients with substance use disorder. The patients have completed group education about the disease of addiction. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the patients make which statements?
1. "Heroin addicts often die from heroin withdrawal." 2. "Substance abuse depends on complex variables." 3. "Most addicts became addicted from pain medication in a hospital." 4. "Addiction includes a compulsion to use a mood-altering substance." 5. "There is most likely a genetic component to addiction."