The nurse admits an elderly client to the physician's office and learns the client has been seeing a cardiologist, nephrologist, hematologist, and pulmonologist for differing medical diagnoses
When collecting data on this client, the nurse carefully questions: 1. Current diagnoses.
2. Results of recent laboratory findings.
3. Current symptoms.
4. Current medications.
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Rationale: The client who is under the care of multiple providers risks polypharmacy, and the nurse must carefully assess the client's current medications. Another concern for this client is that one provider might order a drug that interacts with another prescribed medication due to inaccurate understanding of all of the client's medications.
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