Which of the following patient monitoring functions detects a patient is taking one medication that may affect another's therapeutic efficacy or side effects?
a. Drug-drug interaction
b. Drug-food reaction
c. Drug therapeutic analysis
d. Adverse drug reaction
Answer: a. Drug-drug interaction
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A nurse assessing a woman in labor notes late decelerations on the fetal monitor and documents contractions occurring every 1 to 2 minutes. Oxytocin (Pitocin) is being infused IV, and oxygen is being delivered at 8 L/min per mask. The woman is positioned
A. Discontinue the oxygen. B. Increase the oxytocin rate. C. Assist the woman to a supine position. D. Stop the oxytocin infusion.
A nursing instructor is explaining the etiology of trauma-related disorders from a learning theory perspective. Which student statement indicates that learning has occurred?
1. "How clients perceive events and view the world affect their response to trauma." 2. "The psychic numbing in PTSD is a result of negative reinforcement." 3. "The individual becomes addicted to the trauma owing to an endogenous opioid response." 4. "Believing that the world is meaningful and controllable can protect an individual from PTSD."
Communication between the nurse and client includes the aspects of:
a. processing and translating b. message, method, and feedback c. explaining and refining d. selecting, understanding, and converting
All of the following women should be referred for a screening mammogram except
1. Cara is 46 years old. She has no family history of breast cancer and has never had a mammogram. 2. Dorothy is 38 years old. She has a positive family history of breast cancer (mother at age 42) and has never had a mammogram. 3. Emma is 52 years old. She has no family history of breast cancer and had a mammogram 18 months ago. 4. Fran is 41 years old. She has no family history of breast cancer but she thought she felt a lump in her right breast. 5. Gillian is 33 years old. She has a positive history of breast cancer (maternal grandmother at age 66) and has never had a mammogram.