A nurse would identify which clients as potentially benefiting from the services of a genetics specialist?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. A client taking furosemide for congestive heart failure
2. A client who is considering tamoxifen for breast cancer treatment
3. A client whose atrial fibrillation is being treated with warfarin
4. A client who requires psychotropic medications.
5. A client who takes multiple vitamin supplements
2,3,4
Rationale 1: Congestive heart failure is not one of the conditions for which genetic counseling is effective. Furosemide is not yet a drug for which specific genetic counseling is done.
Rationale 2: Tamoxifen is one of the drugs for which genetic recommendations have been developed.
Rationale 3: Warfarin is one of the drugs for which genetic recommendations have been developed.
Rationale 4: Client response to psychotropic medications is thought to be in some part genetically determined.
Rationale 5: Vitamin supplements do not yet have genetic recommendations for administration and dosing.
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